I do appreciate OMWC leaving me the opportunity to memorialize one of the truly brave men in the history of the world. Today, June 5 is the day in 1989 when a man bet his life on the basic humanity of the men commanding tanks for the PLA and won. And I mean that. At least one tank commander that day said to himself something like, “it would be inhuman to use all of the power of this tank to destroy a single man who means me no harm, and could do me no harm if he tried.” Whether any courage of Tank Man transferred to that commander and stayed his hand in later brutality is unknown. So I leave to you my friends this hope, that over the next few days, both those who seek change and those who seek order will find moments of courage and see the basic humanity in each other.
I knew I could count on Florida Man! The cops went easy on him though: According to court documents, Alcalde faces a misdemeanor charge of refusing to admit an officer and a warning for violating the state order closing restaurants.
Pretty cool, someone figured out how anesthesia works.
And you guys told me elephant serial killer was far fetched. What an asshole.
Reuters: U.S. labor market unexpectedly improves; recovery years away. Remember when bad economic news happens to Team Blue president, it is always unexpectedly. When good economic news happens to Team Red president, it is always unexpectedly. Seriously, they were expecting -8 million jobs, and got +2.5 million jobs. That’s about as wrong as you can be. Although they’re right about the recovery. As long as businesses are shut down by fiat order, there’s no chance.
I, Brochettaward, first of firsters, declare that we are living in the derpiest of timelines.
I read that as “first of fisters”
Well, Fist was a firster
Brochettaward of Etiquette has too many syllables tho
He’d have to have etiquette, too.
How did we survive all this time without you being first on every thread?
Blame Rufus. He’s falling down on the job.
If you don’t comment one of the links or the post you aren’t first.
I saw the uncropped tank man picture. His balls are bigger than that picture show.
In good news, The Clown Prince has graciously and magnanimously deigned to allow indoor dining in bars and restaurants in New Hampshire at 50% capacity for the states four most populous counties and 100% elsewhere starting on June 15th. I am taking that day off.
Good for you. We’ve got most everything getting opened back up next Wednesday. At that point, I believe it’s just the amusement parks that can’t open. Anything else that doesn’t open is based on the owner or localities deciding not to open.
Still reduced capacity pretty much everywhere though.
I hear tell Cedar Fair is suing
As are Kalahari, looks like the same legal group that so far lost one (the bridal shop case) and won one (the gym case). But it looks like it’s going to be moot.
I’m looking forward to it. I expect there will be lines all over the place. I normally hate waiting in line, but fuck it. I’ll put up with it.
If Zoos can be open, Cedar Point can be open.
June 19.
I always love reading stuff like this. We always think science comes first, then the application of it, when so often it’s “Huh this works…. I wonder why”
Exactly. My wife who is an RN and helps with OR procedures did not believe me when I told her that I was a bit worried to “go under” because they didn’t really know how that stuff works.
I had no idea. I was just put under yesterday. Neat stuff.
We knew how propofol works, just not the volatile agents.
How does t work? Quite well
/Experienced recipient
Anesthesia’s been around longer than 150 years.
175 years according to the article. No idea it was around that long!
Oops. Knew it was either 150 or 175.
No, the Egyptians and Greeks had it. The Arabs used it when it was still a bastion of erudition. It was definitely in use by Revolutionary War times when western medicine was catching up to Arab medicine.
You probably learned it was around for 150 years 25 years ago. Time flies!
Yeah, that’s it!
The Great Moment
Or, Ether frolics
When they removed the tumor from my head I was under for 9+ hours and then 24 hours in ICU. More than an entire day that I had no recollection of right after it happened.
Who is Heroic Mulatto?
(as in i hope HM is currently busy setting up a Galts Gulch for us to go hide in since the world is crashing down around us)
Maybe preparing for some of that Dagny booty.
Dominique > Dagny
I like Dagny…she got it on with Frisco, Hank, and Galt.
Yeah, well, Hank was more man than Frisco and Galt put together. That she chose Galt makes her inferior to Dominique.
I can get behind that (as it were)
Would that we were all as brave as Tank Man. The very foundations of Tyranny would shake to their core.
But on April 30, the drinks at Nazca’s bar were flowing — cash-only sales of alcohol along with edibles for a night of drinks, weed and sex. When authorities arrived, most of the 50 to 70 people inside ran out the back door clutching duffel bags and coolers while others hid in an upstairs storage area where more weed and $10,000 in cash were found.
Libertarian paradise!
Make Speakeasies Great Again!
Needs moar guns!
The Ancient Astronauts knew all about the Plains of Nazca.
I’m not saying it was aliens…..
These people calling for defunding and dismantling the police departments are the same one’s who mocked me about roads and Somalia, I’m pretty sure.
Thank you. Stealing that.
Well, certainly would be the road to Somalia.
Every time I see that picture I think of people like Sean Penn swooning over communist dictators and feel rage and disgust. There’s a man who has more courage than I and everyone I’ve ever met put together putting his and likely his family’s lives on the line to resist the kind of tyranny these famous, wealthy idiots would inflict on all of us.
Now days, he would have been ran over because the E4 equivalent would have been staring at his phone and not see the large balled man.
These people disgust me.
Five Democrat senators knelt during a moment of silence for George Floyd. If you want to pray or make a confession, go to church. This new religion of social justice is pure crap.
They’re so brave. Really taking a controversial position, there. So much to lose.
Goddamn right.
That is the most Tim Kaine I have ever seen Tim Kaine be.
I dunno. There’s probably a video on the dark web of him sucking donkey dick somewhere.
He looks like a fucking Taliban hostage. Which, in a way, he is.
The Trump campaign ads write themselves.
I think that is called a polit burro.
1. I really don’t give a fuck.
2. I want to know who the dick is that’s wearing a pair of trousers 3 sizes to big for him.
I will note that i remember some rehtoric about “save your thoughts and prayers” goes down anytime someone dies in a shooting. But you have these guys who could be working to abolish QI and Police unions, you know something that could have actually prevented Floyd’s death. But no.
Imagine being a guy who committed aggravated burglary on a pregnant woman and Senators are taking a knee at your memorial service.
I feel for all the freedom-craving Chinese. From T-square to Hong Kong. Hong Kong’s plight is lost in the covid and race battles over here.
In a matter of months, the rest of Starlink satellites will be launched and they will begin to bring the system online.
When uncensored WiFi access reaches the whole globe, the effects could be profound. Governments that control internet access now (China, Russia, etc) will be faced with a populace that has a new source of news.
Will the statists clamp down on the free WiFi? How? Will the average citizens of those countries react by embracing freedom and knowledge? Or will they panic and crave a government to tell them what is true and what is not?
Don’t worry. Google, Twitter, and Facebook have a plan for keeping it under control.
You mean SKYNET?
Will the statists clamp down on the free WiFi?
By appealing to the company running it. Tech companies seem mighty eager to jump in bed with the CCP. Even Musk has a price.
Musk takes a billion dollars from the CCP…..and uses it to arm his Dragons.
Even Musk has a price.
And if he doesn’t, they’ll just Qwest him.
Nacchio was a ego driven piece of shit, forever pissed that he had been passed over at AT&T. Fuck him. His defense to charges of insider trading on impending poor results was that he traded on insider information of impending good results. He enabled the culture and condoned anything as long as it contributed to his besting of AT&T.
Yup. I worked (consultant) at US West during the Qwest takeover. He was an utterly vile little man who ruined a lot of people. Qwest was a nightmare.
Ahem. That’s U S WEST.
Not that there weren’t blemishes and problems prior. Sol Trujillo was a fucking idiot who lived for Hispanic businessman awards. The writing was on the wall when Gary Ames got forced out but the place was sliding almost from the start. Mistake #1 was locating the HQ in Denver for Divestiture and letting the Mountain Bell retards run things.
Will the statists clamp down on the free WiFi? How?
Some thoughts:
– Jam the signals
– Ban the terminals
– Find anyone using the network (through various means) and arrest them
– Set up fake terrestrial or satellite signals to hijack the network
Gooble gobble
Brees believed that his comments honored the flag and America’s ideals. But valuing a symbol of justice over justice itself isn’t moral or righteous. It’s the opposite. When honoring the flag is the price of justice, then the flag does not symbolize justice. It symbolizes force, inequality and racism. It’s a flag of conquest for white people, not of mercy or freedom for all.
Brees is hardly the only one who has insisted that respect for things and for symbols is more important than protesting against violence, injustice or racism. Since George Floyd died while in the custody of Minneapolis police, and after then-police officer Derek Chauvin was seen in a video digging his knee into Floyd’s neck for more than eight minutes, many people — and especially many white people — have come forward to express their respect for property or order or religion or anything other than the lives and safety of black people.
Oh.
And, once again, they ignore the other side of the ledger: that destroyed “property” does not exist in a vacuum, it represents an investment of time, energy and knowledge (you know, human capital), as well as money. Destroy the space, destroy the inventory, and you have destroyed the life and livelihood of a very real person.
As for the destruction of “order”, you’ll find out what that entails, soon enough.
“ Destroy the space, destroy the inventory, and you have destroyed the life and livelihood of a very real person.”
Facebook is full of people claiming moral high ground for sacrificing everything in the name of saving or prolonging a life.
So if you want businesses reopen, you’re a terrible greedy person who puts money above the life of Grandma Mildred. And if you thing looting and vandalism is bad, then you are a white supremacist capitalist.
I’m tired of seeing the race card flashed around.
Sorry about what happened to your ancestors; It’s time to get over it.
The derpiest thing I saw today was a meme about how white people can sympathize with a school shooter who was bullied for 4 months but can’t understand violent riots after 400 years of oppression.
The last black person with a living memory of slavery died in the 1960s. The rioters today don’t know what hundreds of years of oppression feels like any more than the rest of us.
Remind me which group excuses, even welcomes, the violence, I’d ask.
“Facebook is full of people claiming moral high ground for sacrificing everything in the name of saving or prolonging a life.”
Yes it is. Those people are irritating beyond endurance.
Look, I don’t give a fuck if you want to set yourself on fire for that sweet, sweet victim cred. Quite frankly, the rest of us are probably better off without you.
But when you try to set me on fire, I’m gonna object most strenuously.
Countdown to the U.S. flag getting removed begins…
“have come forward to express their respect for property or order or religion or anything other than the lives and safety of black people.”
Why can’t I have respect for all of those things?
That’s the infuriating part – how is respect for property at odds with the lives of black people?
What does that say about anyone who seriously thinks that’s the case?
(I know they don’t seriously believe that, they just want to excuse looting and arson).
Ladies and gentlemen, our thought leaders.
Follow up on “Hawaiian shirt day” at work. Apparently someone told HR that Hawaiian shirts are the same as Nazi uniforms or klan robes, because they changed the theme to wearing a school team jersey today.
What will be blacklisted as racist dog whistling Next? Wearing a belt with slacks?
Everybody’s scared shitless.
“shirtless”
Lol.
So now I need to throw away 600 dollars worth of shirts because some fuckwad on 4chan or someplace said only nazis wear Hawaiian shirt ?!?
But it does mean I can’t wear them in public anymore unless I am carrying, because some antifa shit will punch me without warning. It will be a sad day when some 20yo dies because of the shirt I wore that day.
Apparently, the tech weenies started banning “boogaloo” so they changed it to “big luau” thus Hawaiian shirts.
My favorite was when they got people to declare that drinking milk was white supremacy.
Proof that Tom Selleck is racist!
Also, “big igloo”.
So more homeless eskimos?
Milk has something for every white body.
It’s such a silly claim (Hawaiian shirts=white supremacy) that i suspect it was invented by a troll or by a behavioral psychologist experimenting on us.
It’s like the “OK” hand gesture. That’s been around forever and I’m not going to avoid it because some leftist has sand in his vagina and says it’s triggering.
It doesn’t matter how silly it is. There will be some idiot in a black hoodie with a face mask that believes it and also believes that it his righteous duty to punch a nazi.
I have a couple dashikis that Mrs F brought back from Africa. Locals thought I was a cool guy in one. Used to be a sign of solidarity, today I might get stoned. Similar style as this but not as pretty
https://www.tbdress.com/product/Dashiki-Round-Collar-African-Totem-Ethnic-Printed-Slim-Fit-Casual-Mens-Shirt-13026178.
I have 2-3 in this style, Mrs F brought back from Africa. The locals think they are way cool. Used to be wearing a dashiki was a showing of solidarity but alas, how times change
https://www.tbdress.com/product/Dashiki-Round-Collar-African-Totem-Ethnic-Printed-Slim-Fit-Casual-Mens-Shirt-13026178.
A school shirt like this?
That covers the bases!
What’s up with that guy’s neck?
He cut the face off a lighter-skinned black dude, and is wearing it Hannibal Lecter style.
Seriously, those are the ugliest models I’ve ever seen in my life.
Blue jeans.
Hawaiians hardest hit.
What will be blacklisted as racist dog whistling Next? Wearing a belt with slacks?
Invest heavily in Sans-a-Belt stocks.
Wear a Redskins jersey.
Opinion piece on reopening NC gyms
Which is it, Gov. Roy Cooper?
People are more important than property, Cooper tweeted. His backdrop was violence, the riots and looting of downtown Raleigh and other N.C. cities. The brutal killing of George Floyd should be met with protests, demonstrations, and demands for change. Violence and looting have no place in this.
Each Tuesday after the suppression orders, people have gathered in Raleigh to protest the governor’s lockdown. They weren’t violent. The protesters simply wanted to return to work, to reopen their businesses. To attend church.
Cooper — before backtracking — had said “mass gatherings” were illegal under his orders. He’s clear, though, in his full support for unmasked protestors and those types of mass gatherings, which at times turned violent and sickeningly destructive.
Which is it, governor?
It’s pretty obvious that the Dem governors are talking among themselves about how long they can continue to fuck their states (Sununu and Baker are getting the memos). They all speak the same complete nonsense. There are states that have been completely open for a month now with now “second wave” but these assholes just cannot let their power boners fade.
Yeah, one of the lefties on the Packer board I frequent was getting giddy every time a higher number of cases was reported so he could bitch about the TEAM RED legislative leaders. I pointed out to him that Wisconsin was having per capita daily rates on par with New York whose daily diagnosis numbers are falling, and that the Wisconsin county with the most cases per capita was on a par with my county (Ulster, NY), which is way less than the downstate counties.
Didn’t deter him; only the rioting did.
Phill Scott (a Republican) is finally rolling back some restrictions in Vermont.
https://twitter.com/Amuk3/status/1268979280396107776
I fucking love science so much. I science so hard. For science.
I’m just glad I get to have all my extended family in town for a protest at my house this weekend.
Hah!
Yep but sadly courts will not touch the lawsuits that point out the outright blatent unconstitutional standards
An income opportunity: “Happy 7th Protest, Jimmy!” cakes.
Transparent. Fucking. Tyrants.
So, who was Tank Guy, and where is he today?
IDK.
I had a professor in college who was a student at the T-Square protests, was arrested and re-educated.
No one knows, and no one knows.
I think that tells us something right there.
Forgive the shitty music, but here is a 2 minute film.
Music wasn’t that bad, I’ve heard much, much worse.
Some believe he is alive and well in China today…I want to believe.
Here is what happened that night. Do not read with heavy objects close by or just after eating.
https://allthatsinteresting.com/tiananmen-square-massacre
From dedthred:
In martial arts, we were taught that because we had the knowledge, we were obligated to defend the defenseless. Okay, well, I can see a yellow belt going out and being all “I AM THE INSTRUMENT OF GOD’S VENGEANCE!!!” but of course, it never comes to that. (Funny how all the big black belts had tales to tell about fights they’d successfully talked their way out of–but…why did they have all those opportunities in the first place?)
ANYHOO.
At what point do we become the instrument of God’s vengeance? I like the idea of righteous vigilantism (ahem, for people who are demonstrably evil/guilty) as well as the next girl, but as a question of morality/virtue/ethics, where do you start?
I mean, that’s what RC’s asking, but I’m curious as well. Morally, I might be able to nail sumbitch destroying my neighbor’s property (even the neighbor I don’t like), but what about the neighbor one door up from them?
Do you start when they’re within firing range or do you deliberately go out of your neighborhood and start plinking them off like squirrels? Do you shoot to kill? At what point does it become self-defense and not murder?
I have to stand back sometimes to and remember “Vengence is Mine, sayeth the Lord”. I know not everyone is a believer, and so it is little comfort to them, but i remember that there is no justice in this life, and that focusing on keeping ourselves and our families, and then our communities safe is the best we can do.
So let’s talk about Nephi and Laban…
In my books, there’s a vigilante running around and I don’t portray it as a bad thing. But of course the guy he killed is GUILTY!!!11!11one. The not-so-joke is that the family considers itself the instrument of the Lord’s vengeance, which is GREAT for fiction. I love fiction. That said, the vigilante is willing to take whatever’s coming to him on Judgment Day. He did it; he’d do it again.
That doesn’t work in real life.
The pass i give Nephi is that Laban had tried to kill him 3 times… but yeah…
Some dude you don’t know shows up on your doorstep demanding your property because God told him to and you’re supposed to take that seriously?
“Fucker wanted my gold plates. Take care of it.”
“Okay, boss.”
Nephi was the (mild) aggressor.
Depends on the situation I believe and of course that introduces a grey-murky area.
An absolute line for me is my neighborhood. Im at the end of a cul-de-sac so if you are on my street you are up to no good and I will defend.
Beyond that, I would no longer be defending and would be the aggressor, unless it needed to be done because they are laying siege to my ingress and egress points.
What I meant was, if the mob / leftists / statists show up in my relatively remote neighborhood on my property line – they’ve already won. I may take some with me in a blaze of glory, but it would just be a gesture at that point.
Do you shoot to kill?
Aim for the legs.
But wait- there’s more:
Brees says that when he hears the national anthem and sees the flag, he thinks of his grandfathers who served in World War II, “risking their lives to protect this country and try to make our country and this world a better place.” That’s his interpretation of the symbol; that’s what it means to him.
But other people have different views. Frederick Douglass, speaking about the Fourth of July in 1852, said the observance of Independence Day “only reveals the immeasurable distance between us. The blessings in which you, this day, rejoice, are not enjoyed in common…. The sunlight that brought light and healing to you, has brought stripes and death to me.”
Fucking context- how does it work?
I think it works like HTML tags.
Meow.
Stop digging dude. Somebody confiscate his phone. Get every other NFL players’ while you’re at it.
Leave Gronk his phone. That goon is will say something stupid and then just laugh and move on when called on it.
“Other people have different views”…..you mean the people who declare that any deviation whatsoever from their views makes you irredeemably racist? Those people?
That sound you heard…was him missing his own point and those who he is now groveling to also missing the point.
Just stop. You aren’t going to win them over or have them say “oh, now I see!”
That’s how they choose to invoke FD? Dude has been virtually blacklisted.
Yep. A long career, future hall of famer, did a lot for the community, is now a pariah, no different than your average KKK member.
Heard some lady on ESPN say she wasn’t judging him as she was implying he had a white hood in his closet.
I’m proud I didn’t punch the radio.
Well, narrative’s a powerful thing. The initial BBC report on Brees’ comments managed to shoehorn in:
“Many athletes have also supported Kaepernick, who was frozen out of the league after his protest and has been unemployed since being released by the San Francisco 49ers in 2017.”
My understanding is that K refused a new contract?
When your GF calls Ray Lewis a ‘house nigga’ for the Ravens, you probably won’t get a deal there.
He did get a contract offer but didn’t take it. In his case, a one time SB losing QB who lost his starting position was not worth to potential employers what he thought he was worth. He used his economic freedom to not sign the contract. Now e wants to employ mob pressure to get a contract.
Yep, he refused a new contract at SF, and at least one offer from another team (I can’t remember which.)
Entire Buffalo PD Emergency Response Team resigns in support of 2 suspended Buffalo officers
Lefty wish is granted – have fun this weekend Buffalo.
Well, from the video they all did walk past the guy as he bled on the ground.
And further proof that the entire profession is rotten. “Few” bad apples, my ass. These jackasses can’t stand it when they have any ounce of accountability thrown on top of them.
What a shitshow.
Don’t hire them back, and cut off their pension.
They aren’t quitting their actual jobs. Just the extra assignment.
They resigned from the ERT. They’re still officers of the department. Not going to give up their badges or lucre.
That’s a shame. buffalo might actually be better off without them.
Other than being in New York and individuals right to defend themselves have been stripped.
I’d like to see the PD managers say “you’re trained & qualified, so you’ll be assigned to the ERT because we need to have X number of people on it. Don’t like it? Resign completely.”
A quick call the union rep would fix that instantly.
So now they’re inert?
When I grew up in the 70s and 80s,Buffalo still hadn’t fully recovered from the riots years and years earlier. It was a ghost town, and most neighborhoods the cops wouldn’t even enter.
Happy days are hear again.
I know several you have been posting stories about how your employers have been reaching out and reacting to the protesting and riots. My company usually makes a monthly donation to various organizations. I just got an e-mail from our Diversity and Inclusion department (//shudders) that this month, they will be donating to BLM in Seattle. What makes this more insidious is that in the e-mail, they explicitly discuss the use of these funds to bail out rioters in Seattle. I had already been sending out resumes here and there, but I’m gonna need to get more out the door. I recall Jordan Peterson getting a few questions in his Q&As about the dilemma I now find myself in — working for a company who puts so much stock into this nonsense. This seems to me a step beyond the usual e-mails and training on diversity, though.
Im waiting to see if the Federal Gov will step on its own dick and send out an agencywide message.
I mentioned this earlier, but some of these companies are getting close to falling dangerously afoul of the “creating a hostile work environment”. I don’t know where that line would fall, and in our era of results oriented judgments, a case wouldn’t go anywhere. (SLD about those regulations and all).
Hostile work environment only applies to women and minorities, duh!
/HR lackey
Of course we create a hostile environment against bigots! They have no place here. And if you oppose that, you’re a bigot too.
Thankfully I haven’t seen any of that from my workplace.
They brought it up on our team meeting today. Thankfully, just obliquely, considering that there were at most three white people on the call, and a large number of the people on the call don’t live in the US.
Send your CEO a link to BLM’s policy page. Guarantee you nobody in a position of power there has read it.
That would certainly be the courageous thing to do…
I’ve been tempted to reply to the many posts on our local NextDoor in support of Black Lives Matters with a link to their website, so people can see their demands for themselves. But I know even doing simply that would make me a target as a irredeemable bigot, so I will pass.
NextDoor is nothing but a meeting place for all the Karens in your community. You will never change their minds about anything. Save your breath.
Earlier this week during our semi-weekly “all hands” meeting our D&I folks announced that “we” are donating a non-trivial sum to NAACP, and “one other (unnamed) organization”. When I saw this, my immediate reaction was “better check my email”. No announcement there, but I’m dying to see who the lucky recipients are.
The other civil rights organization?
The NRA?
Mine donated $25k to the Trayvon Martin Fund. SMH.
We are a non profit organization whose main purpose is to provide both emotional and financial support to families who have loss a child to gun violence.
yeah, fuck these people.
P Brooks… I just read the morning links thread. I saw the post about your parents. Sorry. I hope for the best for you and your folks.
Seconded – I didn’t see the post until later in the day. My sincere sympathies P Brooks.
Have a look at why NYC can’t reopen.
Hint: it’s because of public sector union and “social justice” bullshit.
The whole point of “contact tracers” was to get a new cadre of government-sector workers.
If anything, a lot of people’s priorities have been on full display these past few months.
Because their mayor is a slack jawed retard?
That too.
If I had a store, I would sell “essential protest items” so I could open now.
Anyone here ever been around a tank?
You can tell they are coming before you see or hear them. The ground starts shaking. They are loud, giant and scary as hell.
To stand in front of one as it approaches and bet your life it wont squash you like a bug…..balls indeed.
I was in a tank battalion – before that was in the infantry and had some encounters with unfriendly tanks very similar to the ones in the picture. Even though they were obsolete pieces of crap 30 years ago, they were still scary as hell. Literal 50+ ton fire-breathing death machines.
Only been around friendlies, and that was enough.
In basic, did the get run over by a Bradley and pop up from behind with the AT4 trainer. Could feel and hear it long before it went over.
I got to climb on one in Verdun a couple years ago, but it was French, so it wasn’t all that scary.
I have to tell the truth, I’m a little miffed that Brett didn’t take me to that speakeasy in Tampa when I visited him a while back.
Sure he brought me to a couple very cool places, but no where near as fun as that place seemed to be.
Ya’ll and yer whorin.
He always take his friends. Oh, sorry, Jimbo
“That’s about as wrong as you can be. Although they’re right about the recovery. As long as businesses are shut down by fiat order, there’s no chance.”
Yeah, I sort of remember that. We can never go back to normal! We’ll be shut down for 18 months at least! We’re looking at 15 years until recovery! 50% unemployment is the best we can hope for!
Fuck all of those assholes.
I just noticed that delivery service is going to hell, as people must be going back to their real jobs and only the shit delivery people are left.
Red Guards take over NYT
Hours before the Times offered a mea culpa for running Cotton’s piece that called for the troops to be sent in to quell the George Floyd riots, Weiss claimed that a “civil war” was brewing within the paper
“The civil war inside The New York Times between the (mostly young) wokes the (mostly 40+) liberals is the same one raging inside other publications and companies across the country. The dynamic is always the same,” Weiss began a thread on Twitter. “The Old Guard lives by a set of principles we can broadly call civil libertarianism. They assumed they shared that worldview with the young people they hired who called themselves liberals and progressives. But it was an incorrect assumption.”
She continued, “The New Guard has a different worldview, one articulated best by @JonHaidt and @glukianoff. They call it ‘safetyism,’ in which the right of people to feel emotionally and psychologically safe trumps what were previously considered core liberal values, like free speech.”
“Free speech is a lie perpetrated by capitalist oppressors to enslave the proletariat. It’s just a justification to mentally torment the downtrodden.”
Safetyism is the pussiest word that I’ve ever had the misfortune of reading. Sweet Jesus, how are we losing to these fucking people?
Money and time.
WE are busy working for a living. THEY are working for whoever’s bankrolling them.
Numbers. It’s easier to be weak and coddled than it is to have some degree of independence.
The same battle is going on at every other media outlet and educational instituation that isn’t specifically anti-leftist. Guess who’s winning.
The New York times never met a socialist they didn’t love. Mao, Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot….
New Guard my ass. They have always been commie shitweasels.
^
And 2A, in fact, was put in the constitution for militias to enforce slavery. Do you even freaking love
sciencehistory, bro?The UPS dude just stopped by. Six new magazine for my PC9 and six for my M1A.
See why we can’t be safe? You can buy bullets through the mail!
Magazines. Magazines.
Thousand and thousands of bullets were delivered weeks ago.
And those are high speed clips for your automatic guns, right?
shush, don’t tell anyone
Don’t worry too much about that, I’m sure taking care of that’s on the to do list once they get elected.
Excellent.
What did you get for your M1A? I only have two 20 rounders for mine. Granted, I don’t think I could shoot more than 40 rounds through that thing without it dislocating my shoulder (I have a SOCOM 16, and I put it in a military surplus wood stock that still had the solid steel butt plate…)
promag, 20 round.
The recent rioting convinced me I don’t have enough magazines.
That’s what I have for mine. Love the look of the gun in the wood stock (looks exactly like the tanker version they came out with recently), but dear god is it a pain to shoot. I do love scaring the bejeezus out of people at the range with it though. I bought it used, from someone who obviously lived in NY (it has the flash hider/compensator removed), and it spits a half foot of flame with every bullet. I even had a guy shooting a fully auto 249 come over to see what I was shooting…
JB, I found your shotgun.
https://twitter.com/KommandoBlog/status/1268636794591027202
Fucking weebs…
Speaking of sports stars and protests. Earlier this week I posted a rant in the comments about Aston Villa defender Tyrone Mings who was bemoaning being forced to go back to playing football in a couple of weeks because it was “all about the money” (Mings makes 75k GBP/month) and not about the safety of the players.
Well, you’ve already guessed it, Mings has now posted about how proud he was to be part of the BLM protest in Birmingham, England. He was masked but, from the pics I saw, a lot of the other 4k protestors were not.
*checks table*
19th place. Hahahahahahahahahahaha!
Say what you want, but that public appearance wasn’t about the money.
Yeah, I didn’t explain that very well.
My point was that last week he was all upset about having to play football where the games will be played in a sterile environment and everyone involved will be tested 6 ways from Sunday. But, he’s happy to wander the streets with 4000 people he’s never met.
I know what you meant. I was just playing the hyperbole this afternoon.
Assault Crossbow!
I love this guys stuff
I’m going to buy a crossbow gun. I always liked that idea, but some of the new ones are great, they even have semi-auto multiple shot and one that fires lead shot like a shotgun. I’m bored, I need a new toy.
“one that fires lead shot like a shotgun”
OK, I said that badly, it’s a plastic arrowhead that is filled with leadshot, but looks like one the one crossbow mfg is the one selling them. I don’t think you’d want to get shot with one. Well, you wouldn’t want to get shot with a steel arrowhead heard traveling 350 fps plus, either.
Seconded.
Joerg is a living national treasure. Every time he laughs, I get a woody…
A woman asked my divorcing colleague on a date yesterday and he said he didn’t understand why because he was all “sweaty & scruffy & covered in paint”. I called him a dummy and suggested he doesn’t understand the first thing about women.
I get women. The best way to get into their pants is to constantly criticize them.
Srsly.
Dollars to donuts she’s had him in her sights for a long time.
Points for waiting until the divorce was underway.
First meeting, apparently. She came for some kind of free cycle item he was offering. If she wasn’t completely full of shit about her background, then it makes sense that she would have the balls to do that.
(Just in case some of you dudes are also dummies….women like hardworking men, so sweat & paint splatter & 5 o’clock shadow are generally pretty hawt)
We’re men. We’re all dummies.
*hides pajamas and soy latte*
Yeah, he just got free and he’s already trying on ankle bracelets again. What a dummy indeed.
LOL…that’s my opinion also, but I don’t judge.
Is he, though? He got asked out and was bemused.
It’s also possible she just wants to hit it & quit it
Prominent Reporters Falsely Accuse Trump of Suggesting George Floyd Would Be Happy about Jobs Numbers
Propagandists. Enemies of the people.
BREAKING: CANADA INVADES OKLAHOMA
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EZwvXEDXkAAQcxq?format=jpg&name=large
Michigan has Flipped.
I’m in Michigan and have never heard of JolliBee.
Filipino burger joint.
Rainforest Cafe? That still exists?
I question their methodology.
Boston Market for Mass? Really? There are like (checks) 14 in the whole state.
Dunkin has to be #1 in Mass.
And Sbarro in New York? That’s ridiculous.
Seriously. Shitty faux “American-Italian” in a place where you can get the actual fusion cuisine?
The only place I’ve ever seen an Sbarro’s is in airports. They’re everything you’ve imagined, and less.
“The only place I’ve ever seen an Sbarro’s is in airports.”
Me, it’s Saratoga Race Track and Thruway rest stops.
TX (Whataburger) and NC (Bojangles) I can agree with. CA with Denny’s and not In&Out is BS.
Hawaii has got to be Zippy’s or L&L which are local chains.
Sbarro’s is based out in Lawn Guyland and just as authentic NYC pizza as any of the thousands of mediocre neighborhood joints. They are also, often, the only place in the mall that sells beer.
Yeah… about that.
*shakes fist* Damn you, Barstool!
Denny in Cali…okay….
Sbarro for New York?? What in the everloving fuck?
Melty’s? WTF is Melty’s?
So… anyone looking for a new job for the next couple of months? True, you’ll be working for AB-InBev, but…
Sounds like a lot of work. Would they pay me to sit next to the Appalachian Trail, I wonder?
The Devil’s Backbone section of the AT is more bark than bite. But getting paid for hiking the AT would be great. As long as I don’t have to talk to people.
Clown world news.
Lisa Page Is The New National Security And Legal Analyst At NBC News
Because of course she is.
I knew she’d land on her feet.
It appears Trump was correct about the media.
Come on, dude, that’s surely not a new revelation?
There’s never any real serious consequences for these people, is there?
They take care of their own.
Oh wow, Devil’s Backbone Vienna Lager is my favorite beer
Dude. I will fucking do this right now.
One of my nephews did the entire Appalachian Trail a few years back.
Made the mistake of going to Costco this afternoon. “yOu mUsT WeAr tHe MaSks!!”
Kept my cool, but couldn’t get Accept out of my head.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_3TlrZLpQ0
“Too many slaves in this world
Die by torture and pain
Too many people do not see
They’re killing themselves, going insane
Too many people do not know
Bondage is over the human race
They believe slaves always lose
And this fear keeps them down
Watch the damned (God bless ya)
They’re gonna break their chains (hey)
No, you can’t stop them (God bless ya)
They’re coming to get you
And then you’ll get your
Balls to the wall, man”
I don’t wear the mask. If they don’t want my money, I’ll give it to somebody else.
Who doesn’t wear the mask??!!
I used my mask to staunch the blood from my knuckle that I accidentally bashed open. It caused some discomfort in some observers. Got me out of there pretty fast.
You! You said so! Who doesn’t love a pony!? We all had pony!
I just order online on Istacart. Same prices, no store visit, no membership. WIN!
Well, you have to wear a mask to get IN. I take it off about 10 seconds later. No one except my wife hassles me.
What a shitty day.
Found a bat in the fly paper. Happens every year or so that those dummies fly into it in the garage. It’s either that or larger numbers of insects swarming in the windowsills.
Liquor store claims to have sold their last bottle of Nikka despite an inventory of 5 bottles. I bet that inventory will show that tonight as well. I’ve seen it play out before. They hold bottles for their buddies and claim they’re out of stock. I wouldn’t care except there’s no other option or way for me to mail order from a decent business because of the state liquor monopoly.
Temporary self serve at gas pumps has ended. Back to waiting for the pump jockey to finish up two other cars to remove the nozzle from mine. Almost two months of concrete proof that the self serve ban is useless but the bureaucrats were quick to reinstate it before the plebes start doing the mental calculations. Like the ok for large scale protests, the dangers they squawk about don’t apply to their pet issues.
I’ve never had someone pump my gas, but years ago when I visited Utah, the girl behind the counter couldn’t understand why I came in to pay for gas I hadn’t pumped.
New Jersey?
No, different shithole.
Sounds like Oregon. We don’t have a state liquor monopoly in NJ AFAIK.
“bat in the fly paper”
Isn’t that a classic novel?
Ancient Chinese secret, huh?
WTF??
https://twitter.com/CrannisDominic/status/1268561713755979776/photo/1
NSFW
Oh, and this is lovely.
Some people just want to catch a bullet.
They’re racialists willing to let their brothers catch bullets for their psychotic ideas.
“KILL a straight white man on your way to work tomorrow.”
So I have to get a job?
“Public Health Experts Say the Pandemic Is Exactly Why Protests Must Continue
There has been a lot of concern on how the protests over the past several days may produce a wave of coronavirus cases. This discussion is often framed as though the pandemic and protests in support of black lives are wholly separate issues, and tackling one requires neglecting the other. But some public health experts are pushing people to understand the deep connection between the two.
Facing a slew of media requests asking about how protests might be a risk for COVID-19 transmission, a group of infectious disease experts at the University of Washington, with input from other colleagues, drafted a collective response. In an open letter published Sunday, they write that “protests against systemic racism, which fosters the disproportionate burden of COVID-19 on Black communities and also perpetuates police violence, must be supported.””
https://slate.com/technology/2020/06/protests-coronavirus-pandemic-public-health-racism.html
If this were a parody, they’d have to try harder to make it believable.
Maybe all of 2020 is a parody?
Share that link every time someone proclaims “believe science”
It was obvious this was mostly political nonsense weeks ago.
I have a question for Slate. What is cognitive dissonance?
Honk honk!
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Friday Funbags is a bouncy, squishy antidote to the news cycle.
http://archive.li/fZyLj
Top notch.
Orgy.
3, 4, 5, and I’m spent.
LMAO: just listening to The Jacket’s interview with Massie back from when he demanded the House return to vote. You’ll remember that John Kerry tweeted something along the lines of “Thomas Massie just tested positive for being an asshole.” Massie said to NG, “At least I haven’t been symptomatic since birth.”
Nice.
We’re still mostly cowering in place here in NJ, but we’ve got our priorities straight. Gotta keep the heroes well fed, dontchaknow?
https://www.nj.com/food/2020/06/njs-best-doughnuts-the-30-sweetest-spots-across-the-state.html
My wife just made a hair appointment for opening day. If Murphy changes his mind and postpones it, you’ll see her on the news choking the life out of that asshole.
If I’m on her jury, she’ll get off scot free.
I’m sorry, can you provide your ancestry to determine if you are allowed to use “Scot free”
Stepdad born and raised in Glasgow (not Montana), lived through blitz before arriving on these shores in the early 1950’s. Doesn’t really count, though, since it is known that those who favor Celtic over Ranger are actually Irish.
You may use for now. Until the interwebs says otherwise
Oh, there’s something wrong with the MT one?
(a work buddy grew up in Ft Peck and went to HS in Glasgow so I’ve heard more than a few stories about the place)
Trenton looking good today. I was really hoping Phil Murphy was in one of the vehicles – he could lecture them on social distancing and call them knuckleheads.
Nice. And he wants to borrow $14 billion to make up for “massive losses in tax revenue”. I wonder what caused those losses.
News from one of the idiots purporting to represent my state in the Senate. PPP Act changes
Payroll drops to 60%
Spending period is now 24 weeks.
Rehire date is 12/31.
Loan term goes to 5 years.
I know lives are starting to emerge from slumber but felt the chat thing has become a staple to this rag-tag bunch of misfits, shit-stompers, and otherwise ridiculous bunch.
Are we still doing Friday Fracas? Because it’s kinda my only excuse to shower & wear decent clothes & put on some jewelry & generally be human-adjacent
You out right asked. I danced around it and hoped another would come…and that they did.
Very well… I’ll start one up at 19:30 Eastern. I’ll need to pass over control early, I’m planning on brunch and a 20+ mile ride tomorrow morning.
We’ll do our best to make sure your Saturday plans are utterly ruined
Thanks Neph!
Thank you!!!
Thank you so much!
We’re going out to visit friends tonight, so have one (or more) for us. Of course, we’ll be drinking there anyway.
Thank you!
I’m going with a theme this week. I just don’t think I’m ready to try the mid-Atlantic accent yet
Or we could tune in TMC and get the same effect.
Or, you know, TCM.
OMG this is great https://youtu.be/hEqesVTEFPM
Finally went and got a haircut. Stylist wear masks, patrons it is up to them. Sanity, it seems, making a small comeback.
Oh look at Mr. Big Shot here with his hair “stylist.”
Barber escaped me so stylist is it. Trust me…there isnt much to style unless I look like a 800AD monk
Barber escaped you? Did you have him locked in the basement?
Don is his barber.
My wife cuts my hair, but she’s been unable to do it lately because of her white guilt.
I’m starting my glam rock look… greasy, pasty, pimple-prone glam rock.
I’m kinda enjoying my apocalypse hair. I might let it go for a while even after haircuts become available again here.
I was in protest. Wife said get it cut or I do it. So i shelled out the cash.
I am seriously considering just letting my hair go gray. I’ve been dying it to cover gray since I was 19. My great grandmother was gray by 30. I have, it seems, the pretty gray, almost platinum, so why not. Maybe a temporary pink rinse in the mean
Why not, indeed?
What would a 6 year old know about it? I don’t care how damn precocious you are!
Dude, stop that! SP was at least 8 before OMC lured her into his van with free candy!
You really don’t have to let it go grey, it’ll do that by itself. My hair is white, I called the barber guy for an appointment, his voicemail was full, wasn’t accepting any more calls. I have an idea I’m way down the line to even getting an answer. I look a bit unkempt but its Trump’s fault so I don’t care. My (social)life doesn’t matter.
“You really don’t have to let it go grey, it’ll do that by itself.”
I see Fourscore is not a wiminz folk, he doesn’t understand how complicated this stuff is.
My beard was gray by 30, partial gray, but my hair still has very little gray in it, more than 20 years later. My wife won’t let me color the goatee, I guess it’s sexy, lol.
My beard used to have two great grey streaks straight down at the corners of my mouth in a fairly reddish beard. Loved that look. Growing it back out now, and it is mostly grey. Last 3 years must have been hell on me…
At 31, I have a bit of gray in my beard and a bit around my temples. Wife keeps saying “youre looking older” while flashing her bedroom eyes. I’m not complaining at all.
My hair is flat out white. I was looking like Doc in Back To The Future. All neatly trimmed now, but still damned white. I do become a platinum blonde in the summer sun though.
Fuck me – just clicked on Amazon Prime and they have a banner saying “Black lives matter – Amazon stands in solidarity with the Black commity” – also top movie section is “Black History, Hardship, & Hope”
At least they are acknowledging history didn’t start 4 years ago…
No person plea from Bezos to continue destroying small businesses every way possible?
CA Gov Newsom just announced $100 million will be made available in the state for women- and minority-owned businesses to rebuild and reopen.
Looters destroyed your business, white guy? I’m sure you’ll be able to fix it easily using your white privilege alone.
That would seem like something that would be unconstitutional to me.
So would “affirmative action”.
Where is he getting that money, exactly, now that he’s begging he feds for a bailout?
Cop-friendly A&E had a black box on their app in place of “suggested shows”. The network that hosts LivePD and The First 48, among others. I LOLed
I was on Amazon several times to do orders today, and I honestly did not notice that. I’m getting to be a professional at ignoring assholes, so proud of me.
My wife read an email from Uber to me today and asked me what it means.
I texted her this:
Virtue Signalling
To take a conspicuous but essentially useless action ostensibly to support a good cause but actually to show off how much more moral you are than everybody else.
They may be standing in solidarity with them, but they are also sending their delivery vehicles out at the crack of dawn, and my guess is that it is to avoid the potential protests occurring later in the day. We got a deliver at 07:30 this morning, and they usually don’t show up in our neighborhood until after dinner…
I placed an order with eShakti, a clothing maker in India who sews clothes to fit your custom measurements. eShakti is my go-to place for professional clothes and dresses too.
I had forgotten the order. It arrived today; they weren’t shipping during some covid related import period. The stuff showed up today, with 2 facemasks as a bonus.
I’d say that counts as net progress.
I loooove eshakti. I just got my order from Feb last week. With 4 masks (I had ordered 4 items)
Yay! EShakti is great. Their standard sizes are nice and consistent, but taking the time to take proper measurements with a friends help is well worth it.
Now if I see something I like, I go ahead and change the sleeves or collar or overall length until it’s perfect.
And it started as a microloan and good old unbreakable Singer sewing machines.
Awesome! Their customer service is excellent too. I usually get custom because I have itty bitty titties and a rather…Rubenesque midsection.
I must try this!
Hell yes!
I may require your help
#metoo! Perfect for people like me too lazy to go to a tailor.
The positive side of globalisation.
It’s just trade.
I’m not familiar with eShakti, but was looking for someone to make custom shirts (I’m shaped like Ina Garten and like her custom camp shirts).
Thanks!
Godspeed…I check on their new items at least once a week. It’s a sickness.
Do the masks match the clothing?
Where is that standing ovation gif when you need it.
Bravo! Bravo! Bravo!
The ones for sale do. The ones they send for free with an order, sadly do not.
Yeah, I just got this. Sometimes I hate my brain.
Hee hee.
Twas a real question, just came out funny.
“Does the carpet match the drapes?”
“Yes. But not the upholstery.”
I want to try one of those outfits where you use your phone to measure yourself. Literally nothing in stores fits me.
I’ve used J. Hilburn and been extremely pleased – they send someone over / you meet them and they take a pile of measurements. They take the first order to really dial things in.
After that you can just order off the site using your stored measurements.
Pics or it didn’t happen.
I succeeded in getting a haircut on Wednesday.
Happy haircut bro!
This week, Target had my preferred brand of toilet paper.
So this has been like a perfect week.
Jeebus, my wife has so much name brand TP hoarded at this point, that I need to build a pole barn just for that.
I got a haircut 2 weeks ago! In a salon! OK, it was Great Clips, but still. South Carolina was an island of sanity for the couple weeks I was there.
Weird isn’t it? Visit a place completely normal, then return to lockdown town. The only difference is the letter after the Governor’s name.
Hey! It’s been a minute since I’ve seen your handle!
I got a haircut last week. In a bathroom.. In my house. It came out fine. The barber is an idiot, but I know where he lives, so he always does a good job.
It went so well that my boy finally came around and asked me to cut his hair. It was really getting too long. So I buzzed it up the sides and back for him. He insisted that I leave the top alone though. It is a little ridiculous, but he likes it… and the girls are going nuts. It is almost like this generation’s version of the mullet. Except it’s an inverse mullet.
And the wife actually got the full beauty treatment yesterday… cut, color, the works. It must have cost me a fortune, because despite 3 clear opportunities to declare a number, she avoided the topic as deftly as a politician in an interview.
Howdy cyto! On June 30 I will pay a shocking amount of $$ for a cut & color in my regular salon. But I ain’t gotta hide it. ?
I recommend purple. I have it on good authority that all the kids are doing it these days.
Its the In thing color style at the casino when the casino is open.
“And the wife actually got the full beauty treatment yesterday… cut, color, the works. It must have cost me a fortune, because despite 3 clear opportunities to declare a number, she avoided the topic as deftly as a politician in an interview.”
Why bitch about the price? After 2 or 3 months, it’s like going to bed with something “strange” tonite. How often do you get that opportunity, with no adverse blowback?
Brett, that first paragraph brought a tear to the eye. Beautiful writing.
Granted, I wiped away that tear with fingers that 10 minutes prior had been cutting up raw onions, so it led to many, many more tears in the eyes…
Fuck off Tulpa!? I don’t pay attention to poster names so you could be someone here for years
Tulpa didn’t even say he’s from the government first. Fake Tulpa!
Yeah, I’m lower than a Tulpa. I’m an actual federal employee…
Haha Haha! I’m better’n you because I’m merely a Federal contractor!
Oh, you’re miles above me. I’m a federal employee, married to someone who used to be a federal contractor, who is now a county employee….
Join the club
Interesting. Black approval for Trump now above 40%:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/rasmussen-black-approval-trump-surges-over-40
I’d love to read that statistic to Pelosi
It would be greeted with a dismissive sniff and a “Let them eat ice cream!” from Her High-and-Mightyness.
Well the D’s do own the vote counters in the major cities.
Haha Haha! I’m better’n you because I’m merely a Federal contractor!
Goddamn wrong thread
If true ut makes sense. Anyone not running to the inner-cities to get free shit and destroy with no consequence is looking on saying “what the fuck!”
Impossible. All black people know who they are going to vote for
Well, if they don’t then they are not black… by definition. So Truism?
The historical numbers indicate that they’re going to overwhelmingly vote for the guy with a D by his name no matter what if they vote at all.
Historical numbers also say (insert here) and yet history always lets us know that the future is not written.
*note I agree with what you said it is the likely outcome.
“Black approval for Trump now above 40%:”
Yeah, if that is true, the dems are fucking doomed.
DO NOT read the comments on that site. Jeebus what a bunch of fucking insane people.
ZH is an odd place. You can find decent information from time to time. What is interesting is the ebb/flow of their commentary. One minute they love an author and the next they call them a Jew lover.
Every site cannot have a solid commentariat. And sometimes when they do, they get jealous that their writers are being upstaged by that commentariat, and lose them all overnight. Not that I’ve ever seen anything like that before, just sayin.
Me neither though seems like deja vu
“Every site cannot have a solid commentariat.”
And you, a Glib!
Hyperion is just one of (((them))). Part of (((the))) conspiracy. Don’t listen to him.
You got me, you got the (((tater)))
It’s Phase II in Spotsyltucky. I took the wife to Basilico for dinner.
Speaking of Florida Man…. we’ve just seen a huge spike in new cases of Covid over the last 3 days. Yesterday was the largest number of cases yet. There had been a fairly large downward trend immediately before that.
Hmm… I wonder what could have changed over the last week that might have led to a huge spike in the last 3 days?
Increased meth distribution?
Usually it’s more testing.
I’m not seeing the increase in my system
Garden question. Do you allow blossom rot tomatoes to stay on the vine or pluck them?
If it’s diverting the plant’s energy from the stuff you want to grow, pluck it.
Thanks IM. Reading garden blogs as a novice is like reading a tech blog as such and is as heated as any 2020 political blog
Pitch them. Get rid of the disease. I have a lot too (in September) and they go over the fence. Deer won’t even eat them.
Warnings are all over Facebook and super local news like NextDoor and Patch that there will be protests in Escondido starting at 5pm.
Really? I thought a protest was something that happens when you’re just fed up and can’t get your rights protected.
I picture a guy sitting at his calendar. “Let’s see. I’m planning to be outraged by about 5pm. Better show up early for parking.”
Does such a person also plan personal squabbles the same way? “I’m all booked Monday, but I think I can get outraged by a comment Tuesday between 7 and 9. Does that work for you? You can bring up an ancient wrong-doing and we will go at it for an hour or so.”
(Escondido is a small city just north of San Diego. I live outside city limits a few miles north. Hopefully too secluded for rioting.)
I worked at the Nordstrom at Escondido Fair Mall the summer of ’91. I used to take long drives out to Julian and Warner Springs and Palomar on my days off.
Chess King ftw
My wife has relatives there, nice spot. And I spent lots of time next door at Pendleton.
We had a blizzard of warnings here in Florida the other day. Word is that it was part of a disinformation campaign out of China.
No idea if that is true, or if Antifa or some similar group is just trying to drum up as much business as they can.
Either way, someone is trying to use social media to push unrest.
I think the Chinese (and probably others) are pushing a lot of stuff and have for past several months. Sometimes at both ends of the string just to play up the conflict.
I thought a protest was something that happens when you’re just fed up and can’t get your rights protected.
Nope. Real protest involves lots of planning and lots of dedication. See Selma Alabama.
Riots, however, can be totally spontaneous.
I’m reminded of this guy I met online many years back who said he was on a hunger strike over some bullshit leftwing cause. He talked about how it was time for his prune juice as he had to make sure there were no negative health effects.
Like the chick sobbing about being arrested for her BLM protest… and then taking to twitter to complain about it.
Hon, do you understand what protesting power means?
I’m sure I’d be an anxious mess being put in cuffs, especially for a cause I believe in. But I’m not pretending I’m the moral equivalent of a soldier advancing up the beachhead while German machine gunners play tic-tac-toe in the surf around me.
With pallets of bricks.
I’m guessing that a riot gets going as people test the boundaries.
– Throw a rock – no response from police
– Throw a brick through a window – still nothing?
– Okay – let’s loot this store…
Thats probably the most correct statement and observation.
Tank Man was one of the few things that made it look like real progress was happening in the world.
1989 held a lot of promise. Breathtaking when the eastern bloc started to fall apart that fall and soldiers weren’t machine gunning their citizens.
He was a superhero.
For those who are too young, you won’t really understand. China and the Soviet Union were not like Russia and the China of today. At that time, China was perfectly happy to shoot dissidents in the head and send the family a bill for the bullet. Eastern Europe had just seen a wave of communist countries collapsing along with the Soviet Union… so it seemed like we were seeing China follow their footsteps.
But China squashed the protest and eventually managed to open their economy without allowing for political dissent.
So that guy coming home from the store with his groceries deciding that he’s had enough was powerful. Really, really powerful. And it happened on live TV here in the west. I was watching at the time, and I kept thinking they were going to run him down or shoot him any second.
I was working in a lab with some people from China. Some of them were sending news back to China via fax. They can’t go home because of that counter-revolutionary activity.
Yes.
I thought communist China was going to go the way of the Soviet Union.
I was on a business trip to Guangzhou in the mid-2000s. The customer took us to dinner one night. The restaurant had armed soldiers at the entrance to the parking lot. Our host showed some ID to the soldiers and we were allowed in. The host briefly explained that he was required to be a party member since he was a manager.
Everyone back home discounted the story, because “China isn’t communist anymore”.
Russia scares me less than China.
But China squashed the protest and eventually managed to open their economy without allowing for political dissent.
And all of the brilliant pundits said how they would become just like us. They were right, in a way.
The right thing for him to do would’ve been to kneel in front of the tank and ask it for forgiveness on behalf of all Chinese people.
I discovered this morning that if you zoom in on Hong Kong on Google maps and search for Tiananmen square that it never tried to autocomplete with Tiananmen square in Hong Kong. First choice was in Beijing and then a bunch of gobbledygook.
? It is in Beijing.
I missed the joke.
Oh sorry I think I’m an idiot. I figured it was right in Hong Kong and I think I did actually find a Tiananmen square in Hong Kong. I thought I discovered a Google whitewash conspiracy theory.
Walmart: “Please don’t loot us.”
To influence and lead change in society more broadly, we are going to invest resources and develop strategies to increase fairness, equity and justice in aspects of everyday life. We will find the natural overlaps between Walmart’s core business and society’s larger needs that perpetuate racism and discrimination. Specifically, we’re going to focus the power of Walmart on our nation’s financial, healthcare, education and criminal justice systems.
In addition to leveraging our business to drive these outcomes, Walmart and the Walmart Foundation are committing $100 million over five years through a new center on racial equity. The goal of the center will be to address systematic racism in society head-on and accelerate change. Through the $100 million commitment, the center will support philanthropic initiatives that align with the four key areas noted above. The center will seek to advance economic opportunity and healthier living, including issues surrounding the social determinants of health, strengthening workforce development and related educational systems, and support criminal justice reform with an emphasis on examining barriers to opportunity faced by those exiting the system.
So wally word is against affirmative action? That’s the only “systemic” and legally enforced racism that I can think of.
There’s a whole lot of money being thrown around right now and a whole new generation of race grifters who can’t wait to get in on the action.
How about open a Walmart in the ghetto? Didn’t think so.
Most “woke” cities don’t allow Walmarts – they are all-in for Target. Walmart has stores in plenty of ghetto areas – Cicero, IL – off Diversey in Chicago (complete shithole area).
They could fund an ad campaign for a lot less than $10M explaining to urban black and brown people why rich white people won’t allow Walmart to provide jobs in their neighborhoods.
They could, but they definitely won’t. Despite the fact that the company has made its money almost entirely by selling to cost-conscious consumers, many of whom are poor, they don’t want that consumer base anymore. They’ve been trying, since before I worked there around 2010, to get into the higher-end consumer market. That has meant, primarily, appealing to rich white liberal sensibilities. They’re still anti-union as far as I know, but I’d bet that position also gets dropped before too long. The Walton family will eventually cash out and enjoy the cred they get from no longer actually helping the poor but signaling the right virtues instead.
Elvis would’ve.
Technically, Valley Stream, Lawn Guyland is NOT a ghetto. But, Green Acres Mall (where the Walmart is) often has the highest auto theft/auto burglary rates in the whole state.
Walmart already accounts for a very high percentage of revenue lost to theft. It’s built into their business model and pricing.
This is 100% about appealing to wealthy (mostly) white liberals, something they’ve been trying to do for 10+ years. They’ve done more to help the poor than the Federal Government could ever dream of, but they’ve been trying to get out of that business niche for a long time.
I’m tired of seeing the race card flashed around.
*flashes ‘white-privilege card*
What? You don’t all have one of these?
Joking aside, of course. That shit is irritating and unhelpful. The only racism I see these days, at least the only tangibly damaging kind comes from irate leftist that see the world through the veil of skin pigment all the while calling anyone who disagrees with them on any particular issue a ‘racist’.
Yep it really sucks being raised in a household that was naturally tolerant only to be an adult now.
I was raised in a racists household, but even as kids we knew it was something to keep secret, because it’s not tolerated in America. Luckily the racism seems to dying with the older generation. I’m afraid it is going to make a comeback in the next generation.
Sadly yes…yes it will.
For every person with white guilt who is willing to kneel, there’s probably another one who has the exact opposite reaction.
I guess its not in my blood to take knee
I’m not taking a knee for anyone. I mean when Jesus comes back and nukes all the progs, then OK. Otherwise, it ain’t happening.
I can’t wait for the first video of some black dude saying to a white virtue signaler to, “Get off your damn knees, fool.”
Simpson’s did it
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/06/stop-sick-demonic-black-women-urge-guilty-white-liberals-stop-kneeling-black-people-video/
Hope restored. Thanks.
“The media could not be played” I guess the video violated Twitter’s terms of service.
I have family that are actually racist. But they are not violent in any way and would not attack anyone simply because of their skin color. They mostly just talk shit and are more than happy to do business with any person, regardless of how they look. Curious thing, that is…
I think a lot of it was making yourself feel better by putting a class of people below you. You might be a dirt poor redneck, but it could be worse.
We used to call those people bigots. Racists were ones that used actions to prevent minorities from doing things whites could or didn’t hire them, etc.
Bigots just said stuff but didn’t really do anything racist.
Yep. Make everything about racial divisiveness and race based ancestral sin that cannot be expunged, and what would you expect?
How many times in your life have you heard someone start a sentence with, “As a [victim group]…”?
As if the concept of justice cares about that. In fact, it’s just showing that you are going to be biased and instead of recognizing that fact, you use it as a shield.
As a descendant of eastern European serfs, I am claiming victim status. //jk
“I’m afraid it is going to make a comeback in the next generation.”
Policy like this is designed to do it:
CA Gov Newsom just announced $100 million will be made available in the state for women- and minority-owned businesses to rebuild and reopen.
How long until they start passing laws targeting white males, instead of just leaving them out government give away a?
Modern day racism = Dividing people up by race to hand out privilege to whatever group is favored today and targeting disfavored groups for punishment because of their race or skin color.
Has their ever been a more accurate definition of racism than that? Guess who is doing that? Clue – the very people who are screaming ‘systemic racism’. They’re right, only it’s them.
That’s nice of him after he destroyed them.
I just got an e-mail today from Target slobbering all over their support of the “Black Community.” Racist much? Why treat them as a collective?
Some are outraged at having their community burned and looted. Some are burners and looters. Some really care about police brutality.
Some are marching because of virtual signaling or boredom. Some ignore black on black crime. Some don’t participate because their noses are in books trying to better themselves.
That’s what ‘delete’ is for.
Imagine living a mile from the Beach,
https://photos.app.goo.gl/Ng6yz7chSwckzCtbA
https://photos.app.goo.gl/m4v99BdSxKZDatgh7
Nice! We only made it to Mead but it was worth it.
And happy pups!
I love the river.
Clear water, looks great.
Crowds? not today…
https://photos.app.goo.gl/FV7cuwhH2F1oSRYJ7
ThecColorado looks nice today
It was very uncrowded at the beach and on the river, also the clouds tempered the Sun, so with the wind it was quite nice, gotta get here Brah!
I still have two more Wednesday’s off..every other week. Just got to get the wife from stop making money!
Oh, for crying out loud! I just got a virtue signaling e-mail from our local Humane Society:
Geez, we adopted a black cat. What more do you want from us???
I don’t know. I’ve met some dogs who sure barked and growled a lot more at certain ethnicities/races/genders than others.
Bella doesnt like Black People, there, I said it, Fucking Sorry! I guess dogs just know?
And Bella loves people, including some Black people
My friend’s six-year-old daughter is named Bella, this made my chuckle.
This really is turning into a full out “You’re either with us, or against us!” scenario. When Dubya pulled that BS, people rightfully were disgusted.
I’m against you.
If you’re against me, you’re with me.
I’m also against Straffinrun!
You chose the lesser of two evils.
Cut and paste virtual signaling email is all the rage now, you know? It’s like the 2020s version of chain mail. Remember that? No seriously, they used to send these paper letter thingies through the physical mail, and it could take days!, and there was no reply all or forward feature! I am not making this shit up.
BTW, Moj told me to remind you that you’re still the worst.
A pet looks at their owner with unconditional love.
Except for cats, which are notoriously racist against black people.
we adopted a black cat
I have a tuxedo pattern and a black/brown marble with white accent (chest/paws). Are my cats colored enough?
Apparently multiracial, which is apparently tres chic right now, based on the TV commercials I’m seeing these days.
My cat is orange, just like Trump.
Trump is not the pet type but I so want him to get a cat. It would be an epic troll because 1) it’s a cat and 2) he could get a Russian Blue.
Or maybe he could come up with something I haven’t. For instance, I thought Milo Y (who seems to have disappeared) would have made a great choice for press-sec (gay, flamboyant, snarky), but Pie was pretty good and Kayleigh is better and very easy on the eyes.
Um, I’ll keep my story out of this one.
Do they really mean this, I wonder? Because taking them at their word invalidates everything we’re seeing right now.
No it’s a veiled message to get brown and black pets. I already have my white dog up on the alter
I went to visit a neighbor that is a leftist progressive through and through. Oddly, she didn’t even mention the protests. No, really, that’s the weird.
Get rid of all the historical sites because they are icky and damage your delicate sensibilities.
FREDERICKSBURG, Va. (AP) — A 176-year-old slave auction block has been removed from a Virginia city’s downtown.
The 800-pound (363-kilogram) stone was pulled from the ground at a Fredericksburg street corner early Friday after the removal was delayed for months by lawsuits and the coronavirus pandemic, The Free Lance-Star reported.
The weathered stone was sprayed with graffiti twice and chants of “move the block” erupted this week during local demonstrations over the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, city officials said in a statement announcing the removal.
Holding to form, lets nuke Auschwitz from orbit to ensure no one can visit it and learn anything about history because history has a lot of bad things that we obviously do not need to learn from. I mean, it’s not like we could ever repeat the sins of the past.
In the future we’ll have the right kind of slavery where the privileged by class and race are forced to work for the state in camps.
/ISIS
OK, that I honestly don’t fucking understand. I disagree with removing the Confederate monuments, but I understand the logic, really I do.
But removing that auction block is literally whitewashing ugly history. You’re not removing the glorification of it, you’re removing the ugly reality. It’s the exact opposite of coming to terms with the past.
Like, plantations that are open to the public used to not have slave quarters, or they would euphemize them as the servants quarters or workers housing. Now the way plantations do it is show just how small and shabby those cabins were, with exhibits to explain exactly how little food they received, how much work they were forced to do, the lack of medical care, etc etc.
Of course, my main take on the whole Confederacy bad mmmkay is its a way for the North to cast all the racial guilt of America onto the South. As long as they have some good ol boys with rebel flag tattoos to make fun of and unperson, they can ignore their own past both pre and post war.
No one needs to learn from history; the woke will simply instruct all about how bad it was and that is why we must now enjoy our increased chocolate ration.
My wife’s all happy that Garcetti has promised to defund the cops by 100-150 mil. I disagree. I believe that the cops will make sure there are numerous media stories about people calling for help and them not showing up. The cops will say, ” sure it’s a shame. We’d love to have gotten there on time, but we can no longer afford to.” Garcetti will replace the money with double or better. Especially, when we just watched a buncha thugs loot and set fire to half the city. Paying this ransom is not going to work out well. Everyone is going to demand more cops, more laws, more draconian sentences, more of all of it. It’s only happened every other time there’s been a major riot. What really pisses me off is that they’ve made guns as close to illegal as possible. It’s certain that anyone protecting themselves with a firearm will be prosecuted. But, you can’t call the cops either.
The ethnostates are looking at this and saying, “Told ya.” I’ve had a few Japanese people tell me straight to my face that they are happy there aren’t many blacks in Japan. It’s depressing that they saw the videos and that is their takeaway. Idiots like Garcetti have made my job a helluva lot harder.
I just wish they’d look up the history of these things. It’s right there. It’ll give some small guidance as to how one should proceed. But, no.
There will be blow back. You’re right.
They don’t want racial harmony, they want racial strife.
The one thing that cannot be talked about, in all of this, is why cities that have been under the total control of the Democratic Party for decades still have abusive and racist police forces.
SSSSHHH! You’re harshing their mellow!
I’m fine with it.
I would be if they knew exactly what happens when you don’t make your mafia payments. My feeling is they don’t.
Police chief apologizes for not violently confronting armed citizens apparently protecting their businesses from would be looters. Social media and MSM labels them as white supremacists. They are in front of a teeth whitening place so must be right.
https://www.oregonlive.com/nation/2020/06/salem-police-chief-apologizes-after-video-of-officer-with-armed-group-emerges.html
And people thought that Evergreen had simply faded away.
Propaganda at its best…are they Proud Boys? Ate they shop owners? Doesnt matter…narrative is set.
Ate they shop owners?
I guess they was hungry.
Yes they did
Fuck. Forgot it’s Friday afternoon. Gotta get out of here before the nut jobs try to riot in the traffic.
No satire for you!
Popular conservative satirical site Babylon Bee says they’ve been threatened with a lawsuit from Awana over a recent satirical post about President Trump’s religious photo-opping that references the evangelical youth organization.
“Trump Shows Off Completed Awana Vest,” reads the title of the satirical piece, posted Tuesday, a day after Trump held up a Bible outside the historic, protester/rioter-burned St. John’s Episcopal Church near the White House. The top image of the Bee’s piece is a photoshopped image of Trump sporting a red Awana Club vest.
On Wednesday, Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon announced on Twitter that Awana is “threatening to sue us” if they don’t take the story down.
“The chief communications officer at [Awana] is threatening to sue us if we don’t take this down,” Dillon tweeted Wednesday. “The claim is that this article is ‘beyond satire’ — whatever that means — and contains offensive material (an image of the president of the United States).”
Fighting satire with satire. This is great.
Their Trump mockery is the best Trump mockery of anyone this side of Sugar Free.
https://babylonbee.com/news/trump-claims-hes-developed-faith-the-size-of-a-peach-pit–enough-to-destroy-the-entire-planet
Sounds like they need a Snopes factcheck.
“Beyond satire” is quite the compliment actually.
That’ll cut a path.
https://twitter.com/TheHousePlug_/status/1268972107347701763
“White-supremacist hurls racial slurs at peaceful protesters as he aggressively brandishes a chainsaw.” – CNN
I like the exchange with the NBC Propaganda correspondent in the comments.
He, uh, is he white?
White hispanic.
Social distancing champ.
The 72″ bar is a bitch to wield, though.
What we believe.
A lot of, um, interesting things in there. . .
That’s just standard college level leftist claptrap with a liberal sprinkling of the word “black.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/d-c-mayor-bowser-has-black-lives-matter-painted-street-n1225746
District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser on Friday had “Black Lives Matter” painted on the street that leads to the White House where protesters have been demonstrating following George Floyd’s death in police custody.
I can’t imagine that the DOT would allow the road to be defaced such that the traffic markings would be rendered unusable ant the road therefor less safe to traverse.
https://www.nj.com/marijuana/2020/06/arrests-for-having-up-to-1-pound-of-weed-would-be-banned-in-nj-under-new-bill.html
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Just had my first shot of Tito’s in a long time and it’s better than I remember it. That shit is smoove.
Which is why you drink it in martinis, not shots – you philistine. ?
zooming ?
See comment 43 above.
I guess we’re too late. Gosh darn Neph and his actual plans for Saturday.