¡Martes por la tarde, enlaces mexicanos!

by | Mar 22, 2022 | Daily Links | 248 comments

You know…

…when you’re the guy that’s supposed to talk to the state, and you don’t much like the state…

…when people that should’ve got started on something weeks ago ask you to grovel to the state…

…whatever, none of these idiots were getting a Christmas card anyways.

 

AMLO finally achieves the infrastructure crown jewel of his presidency:  un nuevo aéropuerto. Unfortunately, it happens to be on the outskirts of Mexico City so its not convenient and the majority of flights are cargo planes, unless you are an airline under sanctions due to being from Venezuela.

Only if everyone at the nudist festival looks like this. ➡️

Brazilian courts ban Telegram for misinformation when its just favorable news to the supposed fascist, Bolsonaro.  Then their supreme court lifts the ban because this is the time of insanity.

Financial Inclusion?  Can we at least avoid the neo-Marxist lingo?

Migrants sending money home is a big part of this story in Latin America. Remittances are major sources of cash for many families – and economies – across the region. Salvadorans living outside their native land, for example, contribute some 24% of the country’s GDP – and transfers using Bitcoin or other non-national currencies are much cheaper than traditional services. Remittances in cryptocurrencies increased by 900% in 2021, according to Coinpay.cr, led by Mexicans in the U.S.

Cool.

The dirty rumor (I’m not thrilled with the source) is El Presidente DubeBro’s neighbor, Honduras, is next.

Meanwhile, in the poster child for hyperinflation for the past century:

The provision, entitled “Strengthening financial resilience,” says: “To further safeguard financial stability, we are taking important steps to discourage the use of cryptocurrencies with a view to preventing money laundering, informality and disintermediation.”

The letter of intent also describes that “while commercial banks remain liquid and well-capitalized, strong bank oversight will continue, especially following the unwinding of pandemic-related regulatory forbearance.”

Argentina also plans to continue its payment digitalization process “to improve the efficiency and costs of payments systems and cash management,” according to the letter of intent.

I like having them around as an example of what never to do.

 

Judas titty fucking Priest

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248 Comments

  1. Tundra

    That is such a good song.

    Only if everyone at the nudist festival looks like this.

    Yeah, no chance.

    • juris imprudent

      Eleven minutes after the hour, and the Bro is a no-show? shame-shame-shame

    • Chafed

      That is a great song.

  2. Count Potato

    “Only if everyone at the nudist festival looks like this.”

    They won’t. Although I’m not a big fan tattoos.

    • mexican sharpshooter

      If you looked closely, you would notice most of that is paint.

      • Count Potato

        Most of it is. The big opaque thing is paint, but the rest looks like tattoos.

      • Tundra

        Open the image in a new tab and enjoy the show!

  3. Count Potato

    “Then their supreme court lifts the ban because this is the time of insanity.”

    Shouldn’t they lift the ban?

    • mexican sharpshooter

      I’m comfortable with the outcome

  4. The Late P Brooks

    “To further safeguard financial stability, we are taking important steps to discourage the use of cryptocurrencies with a view to preventing money laundering, informality and disintermediation.”

    Nothing says “we want to safeguard financial stability” like eliminating alternatives to the chronically unstable official currency.

    • Lackadaisical

      Their financial stability, not the proles.

  5. Scruffy Nerfherder

    we are taking important steps to discourage the use of cryptocurrencies with a view to preventing money laundering, informality and disintermediation

    How are we going to seize retirement accounts in the future if we can’t get our hands on their private keys?

  6. JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

    The last time I ran the Bay to Breakers in SF there were dozens of nude runners. One and only one looked good. The rest? The horror, the horror.

    • Q Continuum

      *insert meatspin gif*

    • The Other Kevin

      When I was on my trip to the Dominican Republic, there were a lot of women with skimpy swim suits. And almost all of them looked good. Of course there were a few Russian guys with speedos, but overall I felt very fortunate.

      • DEG

        When I was last in Australia, I took a walk along the cliffs from Bondi to Coogee. There were only a handful of women sunbathing topless. All of them were women I wanted to see naked, and I think most men would agree with me.

      • The Other Kevin

        Sometimes it just works out in your favor.

    • ron73440

      Was it like this?

      • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

        Why is Ben Shapiro in that video?

    • hayeksplosives

      https://www.jkrowling.com/opinions/j-k-rowling-writes-about-her-reasons-for-speaking-out-on-sex-and-gender-issues/

      The fourth is where things start to get truly personal. I’m concerned about the huge explosion in young women wishing to transition and also about the increasing numbers who seem to be detransitioning (returning to their original sex), because they regret taking steps that have, in some cases, altered their bodies irrevocably, and taken away their fertility. Some say they decided to transition after realising they were same-sex attracted, and that transitioning was partly driven by homophobia, either in society or in their families.

      Most people probably aren’t aware – I certainly wasn’t, until I started researching this issue properly – that ten years ago, the majority of people wanting to transition to the opposite sex were male. That ratio has now reversed. The UK has experienced a 4400% increase in girls being referred for transitioning treatment. Autistic girls are hugely overrepresented in their numbers.

      The same phenomenon has been seen in the US. In 2018, American physician and researcher Lisa Littman set out to explore it. In an interview, she said:

      ‘Parents online were describing a very unusual pattern of transgender-identification where multiple friends and even entire friend groups became transgender-identified at the same time. I would have been remiss had I not considered social contagion and peer influences as potential factors.’

      • slumbrew

        social contagion

        That’s not discussed all that often but, boy, does it look like a factor in oh so many issues over the years. It’s been much worse with the rise of social media.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        I’ve mentioned this before, but you don’t put anorexic girls near each other in psychiatric hospitals. They will reinforce each others’ behavior. The transgender craze is very similar in nature.

      • The Other Kevin

        Yep. My middle daughter, now 21, declared she was trans in high school. Coincidentally in a graduating class of 60, there happened to be half a dozen other trans kids. The whole thing smacks of “the latest thing”, but this time the damage done is more permanent than a piercing or tattoo.

      • Count Potato

        “Coincidentally in a graduating class of 60, there happened to be half a dozen other trans kids.”

        That’s about as likely as the school being hit by a meteor the same day the principal wins the mega millions jackpot.

        Although, J.K. Rowling should probably shut up on this topic because she keeps saying wrong things, she is correct that female-to-masculine transitioning was much more rare than MTF, and there a number of very good reasons why it would be.

      • hayeksplosives

        If you think “JK Rowling should shut up about this topic” I politely suggest that you read her entire essay I linked above.

        You might find that you have been inadvertently influenced by misleading headlines and gotcha journalism regarding what she did and didn’t say.

      • Count Potato

        I’m quite aware of what she did and didn’t say. Nor do I attribute all of her misstatements to bigotry. Much of it seemed to be her speaking out of ignorance or emotional reaction. If she just recently learned “that ten years ago, the majority of people wanting to transition to the opposite sex were male” then it’s hardly her realm of expertise. Just like Jesse Singal and Debora Soh probably haven’t spent much time studying how to write children’s books about wizards.

  7. Loveconstitution1789

    Trudeau blackface

    Canada is gonna get Communism good and hard!

    • Loveconstitution1789

      You guys have had Trudeau since 2015? HAHA.

      I look forward to hearing how a Canadian national dental plan works out.

      • hayeksplosives

        LOL. Somehow I’ve never seen that.

    • Pine_Tree

      Spell it right: Castreau

    • Swiss Servator

      Uh….that is a September 2021 article.

      • Loveconstitution1789

        Do you want the article with casreau in blackface or that he conspired with Communists to keep his socialists in power? I cant post both links in one post.

        I chose the blackface article because its funnier to see and describe the tragedy that is his power sharing with commies.

  8. Sean

    Mosin & Maxim.

    It’s like chocolate & peanut butter.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Covid tests calling out of asses…

      • Chafed

        So that’s how Fauci does it.

    • Ed Wuncler

      “But her COVID would have been much worse if she wasn’t “vaccinated.”

      I’m not a scientist but isn’t the idea of being vaccinated means that you won’t catch whatever you’re vaccinated for? I’m not even trying to be snarky, it’s a serious question.

      • Tundra

        Yes. The CDC had to change the definition because these aren’t vaccines.

      • Gustave Lytton

        That’s probably a popular impression but it’s not necessarily true for non-covid vaccines. I doubt there’s a vaccine with 100% efficacy.

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        Yeah, the gold standard for a vaccine is that it confers sterilizing immunity; most vaccines don’t, and some (like the mRNA vaxxes) appear to set up the recipients for negative efficacy down the road, due to either pathogenic priming (antibody-dependent enhancement [ADE]) or as a knock-on effect of original antigenic sin (OAS). There’s a reason that, up until our most recent insanity, most immunologists recommended that vaccines targeting a pandemic organism/virion only be administered after the pandemic had subsided into an endemic. We done fucked up bigly.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Or the negative efficacy is a statistical fluke.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        It’s been a while since immunology, but I think vaccines provide a blueprint so your body can quickly spin up antibodies against the pathogen. This means you usually don’t display symptoms because your body fights off the pathogens quickly before it can multiply too fast.

        If you had low levels of pathogens in your system before the antibodies spun up, I’d think a test would show positive. That goes for any infection from any pathogen we have vaccines for. The difference from other vaccines is that non-symptomatic people aren’t getting regular tests for the other pathogens.

      • Ed Wuncler

        Thanks! Always learning from this place.

    • Chafed

      Per Alex Berenson, the mRNA vaccines provide negative efficacy after several months. There is also the possibility these vaccines are guilty of “original antigenic sin.” Meaning there only utility was for one version of the virus and your body didn’t “learn” to fight off any other form.

  9. Count Potato

    “EXCLUSIVE: NYC’s elite are in a tizzy after Justice Department ‘inadvertently’ publishes list of 121 ‘clients’ – including lawyers, businessmen, and socialites – who solicited Sarah Lawrence ‘sex cult victim’ who was forced into prostitution”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10639767/Sarah-Lawrence-sex-cult-trial.html

    “Sarah Lawrence ‘sex cult’ leader Larry Ray, is wheeled out of court after suffering another medical emergency – as jury hears how he set ‘sexual challenges’ for one victim such as taking part in a ‘gang bang’ and paying for a taxi ride with sex”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10640671/Larry-Ray-trial-VIDEO-GRABS.html

    • Gustave Lytton

      Huh. That’s exactly 121 more names than have been released by the Justice Dept as having travelled to Epstein’s pedo island. Funny how those crimes are so egregious and no one except Maxwell or Epstein has ever been charged. Convicted of sex trafficking, yet there doesn’t seem to have been any participants to those sexual acts besides the girls involved.

      • The Other Kevin

        I look at it this way. If a guy down the street from you was arrested for having sex with underage girls, and it turns out he was having parties with those girls and a bunch of male friends, you can bet every person who ever set foot in that house would be under investigation. But of course that only applies to the serfs.

      • DEG

        I’ve noticed that too.

      • DEG

        How did I know it would be zero?

      • db

        Babylon Bee is now banning connections from my vpn. Want to take bets on whether they’ve been targeted for DDoSing by NATed bots?

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        I’ve found some of the Proton VPNs are hit or miss. Usually they’ll work fine, but sometimes I have to cycle through a few new connections before I find one not already banned by places like Lowes.

      • MikeS

        You have more staying power than me. I just usually shut it off in frustration.

        Thanks said, @DB; the Netherlands on I use isn’t interfering with the Bee.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Yes. We know more about Joe Schmoes who donated $25 to the Canadian Trucker Convoy.

      • Drake

        The real villains in this story.

  10. Gustave Lytton

    Discovered that the local jail no longer provides mug shots due to recent state law. Despite the stated rationale that it’s so that arrestees are not stigmatized, I wonder if it’s partly a long run to allow habeas corpus violations by limiting or eliminating public information about who has been arrested by the state.

    • Chafed

      That’s much too clever. I’m sure it’s for woke reasons.

      • rhywun

        This. Oregon, right?

      • mexican sharpshooter

        Yes, so very few of them would be black, right?

      • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

        It probably is for woke reasons, but it likely will end up getting abused. I think most if not all European countries limit the information they release about arrestees to first name and first letter of the last name. I think the logic is that it protects the presumption of innocence, which makes sense, but it does conflict with habeas corpus.

      • Ted S.

        It should be up to the arrestee in most cases how much info is released.

    • The Other Kevin

      We’re not going back to the parks for a long time because they’re raising prices and dropping services. I know several frequent park-goers who are doing the same. They better remember where their money’s coming from.

      • Shpip

        they’re raising prices and dropping services

        The Bosslady dropped our Disney passes after 20+ years for precisely that reason.

        They better remember where their money’s coming from.

        These days? Comic book movies marketed to Chinese audiences.

      • UnCivilServant

        The movie business is small potatos in their portfolio. The parks are still the crutch that hold up the rest of the ediface.

      • The Other Kevin

        Shpip, same I’m hearing from people who used to go every year. One is even in the Vacation Club.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Forgot which Glib said it earlier today, but they really are doing their damnedest to prove that those socons were right when they worried way back when that the LBQWERTY activists were targeting children.

      • Hyperion

        Activists are the worst of people.

      • Chafed

        It sure looks that way.

    • UnCivilServant

      Walt’s head is spinning in its freezer.

    • Hyperion

      Yeah, because if there is anything little kids need, it’s some more sexual initiation. I really do believe that half of the entertainment industry are pedos.

    • slumbrew

      “gay content for kids”

      “kids” and “gay” don’t even belong in the same sentence. Nor does “sex” and “kids”, in general.

      The most charitable take is they don’t really mean pre-pubescent children when they say “kids”, but that’d be generous – they certainly act like they mean true children.

      • Hyperion

        That’s exact what they mean, sickos.

    • rhywun

      Disney expressed support for the walkouts

      I don’t care what the issue is… this is madness. Who’s in charge here?!

    • creech

      Which of the Disney characters is most likely to be gay, bi, trans, or any of the other genders? I always figured Snow White was a nympho, what with living with seven dudes.
      Belle is into beastiality. Cinderella seems hetero (NTTATWWT) as does Pocahontas. Mickey and Minnie can’t commit (any truth to the rumors she’s fucking Goofy?).
      Rest of the princesses, etc. etc. I can’t really say.

  11. Shpip

    Argentina:
    “It can help us with inflation,” said Argentina’s President Alberto Fernández. Argentinians are moving savings from under mattresses to crypto wallets, and using it for everyday purposes.

    Also Argentina:
    The Argentine Senate on Thursday night approved a debt deal of $45 billion with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) linked to an agreement that includes a provision discouraging the use of cryptocurrencies.

    Lovely place to visit — the mountains are cool, the food and wine are tasty, the trout fishing outstanding down south — but the governance is typically South American a complete basket case.

    • Fourscore

      The Salvadoran woman understands bitcoin better than me.

    • Hyperion

      The best way to fight inflation is not to elect commies, but they seem to not be able to do that.

  12. slumbrew

    Judas titty fucking Priest

    Not really that much titty fucking, at least by Rob.

    • Chafed

      Are you telling me Hell Bent For Leather isn’t a titty fucking song?

      • slumbrew

        Chafed, you may wish to sit down for this, I have some news to share with you…

      • slumbrew

        Sadly, I can’t find a clip of Jim Breuer doing his Rob Halford bit – “Shut up! It’s not gay, it’s metal!”

      • The Last American Hero

        Don’t show him the lyrics to Grinder.

      • Chafed

        ? Grinder
        Looking for meat
        Grinder
        Wants you to eat ?

        It’s sung by a gung wearing black leather from head to toe and maybe a codpiece. There’s nothing more hetero than that.

      • Q Continuum

        ANY song is a titty fucking song given the right titties.

      • Chafed

        I’ll take a piece of the action. You are talking to Q. If the big jugs don’t do it for him, then some chemical assistance will.

  13. Hyperion

    HIPSTER JUI… oh, wait, where’s muh hipster juice?

  14. Hyperion

    New World Order

    If anyone speaks those 3 words, best thing is to just pull out the mulching device and get to feeding it, right there on the spot. Fuck off you senile muppet clown.

    • The Other Kevin

      “There’s Going To Be A New World Order, It Hasn’t Happened In A While And America Has To Lead It”

      They won’t even return Biden’s calls. I doubt many are going to follow him off a cliff.

      • Hyperion

        That virus was a real dud, we’ll need a better one and to prod Vlad into firing off some of those old nukes, and then maybe we can get back on schedule if we’re going to reduce the population by 80%, that’s like 6 billion unwashed peasants, needz moar virus and nukes, food shortages, probably Ebola.

      • Q Continuum

        Dood, stop thinking so small; we need GoF super-smallpox.

      • Hyperion

        I know where there is a stash of that, no kidding, I won’t tell them…

    • Fourscore

      “[A general told me that] 60 million people died between 1900 and 1946 and since then we’ve established a liberal world order, and it hasn’t happened in a long while.”

      Don’t count the 800K from the ’94 Tutu-Hutsi War or the dead in Iraq, a few more here and there. At least the US kicked ass in Grenada in ’83, less than a 100 total KIAs, all sides.

      Wars, wars, everywhere there’s wars

      • hayeksplosives

        And rumors of wars.

        And earthquakes in diverse places.

        And plagues.

      • Hyperion

        They’re working hard on it, just be patient…

      • Tundra

        Good song, although they get it exactly wrong wrt property rights.

    • Gustave Lytton

      that occurs every three or four generations

      And how many generations since the last proclamation of a new order?

      From the sidebar stories

      Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) told NBC’s “Meet The Press” that Russia should not be forgiven for the invasion of Ukraine. Putin “was in the world order because we allowed for our allies and the United States to be dependent on the products that he produced.

      Right… that’s how it happened.

  15. Shpip

    I got a chuckle out of this.

    It’s imgur, so the replies are standard-issue campus drivel.

    • Hyperion

      Geez, don’t read the comments, we are fucking doomed. Just send the missles now, Vlad, dont’ even worry about saving some for later.

      • hayeksplosives

        I had to read a couple of comments.

        “Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society”

        “So go to Somalia if you don’t like government services”

        I tapped out.

      • The Bearded Hobbit

        “Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society”

        Someone here re-wrote it correctly:

        “Taxes are the punishment for not being civilized. A civilized society doesn’t need government.”

      • Hyperion

        I am so stealing that…

      • creech

        That resembles me. Sure fire discussion starter after some wise guy pulls out the O.W. Holmes quote.

  16. DEG

    That is an excellent song.

    An annual nudist festival in Oaxaca will go ahead as planned at the end of this month despite Covid-19, say its organizers, who have promised that they will follow all required sanitary protocols.

    Bring a towel for sanitary sitting? Later in the article:

    The festival’s promotional brochure warns visitors that they need to have reservations in a local hotel and will be expected to observe sanitary guidelines, including wearing masks and using sanitizer.

    Blech. Face diapers.

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      Only if the masks were like the one’s in Eye’s wide shut or the Venice Carnival.

      • db

        That comment broke my apostroparser.

    • Hyperion

      I don’t get it. This is the 2nd most transparent administration in history, would be first, but first black persident gets to go to the front of line. Those Veritas are just trouble makers.

      • Count Potato

        Clinton?

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      So when are the government officials that are blatantly committing crimes going to be held accountable?

      *holds breath*

    • Hyperion

      What a truly benevolent dear leader. After they are allowed to take off their mask if they’ve had their 20 boosters, they will be allowed to go into the fields and grub roots for dear leader and sing songs praising him.

    • creech

      Of course he’s a hero. It will be proven when he gets 80% of the vote when he runs for re-election. NYC is probably the one spot in America where you can be assured that diddling a kid in the middle of Times Square won’t affect your re-electability.

  17. Tundra

    This looks interesting.

    Compact Magazine

    I’ve read a couple articles and they are quite good.

    • rhywun

      Huh. I was semi-conscious of the fact that he was gone from the NY Post but I’m sure it’s just a coincidence the place has gone to shit in recent months.

    • Winston

      The fact that reactionary Catholic integralists are making sense is a sign of the times.

  18. Pope Jimbo

    Uffda. Minnesoda legislator is right that parents of kid sports need to take a chill pill, but his solution needs some work.

    Fans are a big part of the culture of sports, but in recent years they’ve grown increasingly abusive. They heckle players, threaten refs and can ruin the experience of live high school and other amateur sports for everyone.

    That’s why Rep. John Huot, who has been an referee for more than 15 years, wants to make this uncouth behavior punishable with fines from the Minnesota Amateur Sports Commission (MASC).

    I can hardly wait for the first black asshole parent to get tasered/shot by a cop that is called by a ref. Of course it will all be due to racism.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Rep. Huot sent a statement to KARE 11, which reads in part:

      “I have been a sports official for over 15 years. The last few years it’s been very difficult to deal with the fanbase. Fans have been yelling profanities [at] of players and definitely the officials during the game.

      In most cases the schools can do something about the students, but they cannot do anything about is the parents or the fans.

      Sounds like somebody made fun of Rep. Huot’s portly physique.

      • creech

        Sixty years ago, in Philly’s Palestra, the good Catholic basketball fans of St. Joe’s, Villanova, and LaSalle hurled curses and invective at the opposing teams and officials that would make a longshoreman blush. I doubt security would let a “Let’s Go, Brandon” sign last more than about 30 seconds today.

  19. Hyperion

    “Salvadorans living outside their native land”

    There are no Salvadorans living in their native land, they are all in Virginia, except the small overflow into Maryland.

  20. UnCivilServant

    It’s sad when the only thing I achieved all day was that I did the laundry, folded my clothes, and put them away.

    • Ted S.

      You didn’t help NYS further fuck the people over. That’s something.

    • pistoffnick the refusnik

      Putting them away is the hard part for me.

    • hayeksplosives

      My husband’s old buddy (lifelong friend) and his wife (10 years or so now; we live her!) are driving up from San Diego to see us.

      My husband is not much of a planner. He’d assured me they were showing up Friday. NOPE. It’s tomorrow, so now I’m on a frantic house organizing and cleaning spree that I did not plan.

      I’ve been using the guest room as a staging area for thoughtful unpacking, sorting, donating, hanging art, etc. Now it’s a blitzkrieg emptying operation in order to get ready to host guests. At least I’d already made up the queen bed when we first moved in.

      Another “unpaid leave” day for me. FML.

  21. Winston

    https://arnoldkling.substack.com/p/elites-but-with-checks-and-turnover/comments?s=r

    I believe that the United States has become too democratic. The gradual expansion of the right to vote has worsened the quality of those elected to office. The voting public is a collection of FOOLs (Fear Of Others’ Liberty). Voters constantly fall for demagogic exaggerations of danger. The result is a government that is way too large, intrusive, and incompetent.

    ….

    Decisions made by the regulatory state are best made by experts. But they should take seriously the propositions that I listed above.

    When we think of elites, their arrogance is something that, sadly, we take for granted. Instead of elites who pay attention to my four propositions, we get people who manufacture excuses to order the rest of us around.

    I think that elites should be subject to checks. In the context of the regulatory state, I emphasize the function of a Chief Auditor as a way to try to introduce a new form of checks.

    Another concern that I have is the need for turnover. When agencies perpetuate themselves, there is little chance for new thinking to emerge. In government, we need to find a way to balance the advantage of institutional knowledge with the adverse consequences of thinking that becomes stale and rigid.

    But most of all, we need an overall political culture that does not suffer from excessive faith in central government. Too many well-educated people believe that credentialed experts have all the answers. And too many anti-elitists believe that popular opinion provides all the answers. Skepticism, epistemic humility, and appreciation of my four propositions are all too rare.

    So…TOP MEN? The tendency of the more wonkish part of libertarianism to embrace enlightened despotism is frightening to say the least…

    We need elites that are anti-elitist, inclined to respect the judgment of private individuals. Regulation should resolve difficult conflicts, not make nudges or give unwarranted commands.

    So we need elites to behave like the exact opposite of elites? And regulators who likewise believe in the exact opposite?

    The line about “institutional knowledge” is obviously his attempt to deal with the problem of “Things constantly evolve and change but we should never change the things I like” that liberalism has always suffered from…

    This comment is interesting:

    it very much seems to boil down to a paleo-conservative authoritarianism rather than a libertarian argument. It seems to say

    1) People are fundamentally irrational

    2) are the authors of their own oppression

    3) so democracy is bad and

    4) we should further elevate elites, limit their accountability to only some other elites, limit the right to vote, and hope this works.

    • Hyperion

      I hate to break it to you, but they’re ain’t no fucking elites, they’re a bunch of inbred sociopaths who cheated and backstabbed their way into power. The only thing that keeps them there is useful idiots, which do exist and there ain’t no shortage of them.

  22. Hyperion

    Aliens!

    I knew it! There was no crossing of the Bering Straight land bridge because it wasn’t there! Now I ain’t saying it was aliens that came down here and flew them right into the Americas, but IT WAS FUCKING ALIENS! IT’S ALWAYS ALIENS!

    • UnCivilServant

      When will the one wave theory of human migration into the americas finally die?

      People arrived from both the east and the west over the course of tens of thousands of years, by land and by sea. And since the sea levels rose with the interglacial period, a lot of the evidence about who arrived first is underwater.

      Oh, but it’s inconvenient that the major ancestors* of the American Indian was almost certainly ten thousand years or more behind the first arrivals. Can’t be the forever peaceful ‘always lived here’ if you did what every other human population in history did too.

      *Some of the people already here probably got absorbed into the new settler population and gene pool, just as would happen after the colombia exchange.

      • UnCivilServant

        Forgive me, I failed to articulate who I’m ranting at and why.

      • Hyperion

        Well, I think I get it. The ‘noble savages’ folk? Yeah, the first human who learned that he could smash his neighbor over the head with a rock and take what he had, set off a forever trend.

      • Hyperion

        The science is settled, my people were here first! In fact, they have always been here! So just give me the money to build my casino and stop fucking around.

      • creech

        “got absorbed into the new settler population and gene pool,”
        This was, of course, due to love and affection and not rape and slavery. Of all the peoples and cultures of the world, it is only white Americans who ever practiced slavery, even if their ancestors arrived on these shores after 1865.

      • Hyperion

        They were living in peace and total harmony when the white devils came. That’s the story and I’m sticking to it.

    • Loveconstitution1789

      I have a theory that humans are actually the prisoners dropped by our alien ancestors to this planet. Plus it might explain how humans have hyper accelerated tech advances in the last 120 years compared to the rest of human history.

      Were getting help from new prisoners.

    • Hyperion

      6. A fairer tax system” = we’re gong to fuck you all equally into poverty.

      1. A better healthcare system = we’re going to make sure you are all equally sick.

  23. Winston

    https://brownstone.org/articles/politicians-of-the-world-unite/

    The great hope that freedom lovers have is in the replacement of one set of political leaders with a different group. That is essential and will likely happen, but it is only the beginning of a solution. We’ve learned in the last two years that the real problem is much deeper.

    The political leadership in these countries has become a veneer of a problem over which citizens have very little if any control: the administrative state that is unelected and deeply entrenched in its management of the well-funded bureaucratic state. This state mostly ignores the comings and goings of political leaders; in fact, it has disdain for them. It is this machinery that has taken full control in most countries of the world. Any political change worthy of focus needs to deal with this quickly and completely.

    What’s more, this administrative state has figured out a fabulous trick for getting around the legal limits on state action: it has developed a close relationship with the biggest players in the private sector, which can justify any level of surveillance or censorship based on the technical truth that they are merely private actors and therefore not subject to the rules that restrict governments.

    This new system is a dramatic challenge to the liberal cause, which is now surrounded by enemies on all sides. The key battle of our times is not only about limiting the power of government, which has metastasized in every direction all over the world, but also its allies in industry and media. The liberal cause has very little experience in this area. The solution likely rests with a dramatic change in public philosophy: the replacement of the lust for power with the love of liberty itself.

    This war will be hard, very hard…

    • Winston

      The part about the private sector is interesting. While liberals have opposed cronyism and fascism they did assume that wealthy educated urbanites would always be liberal. Big Government could always impose tariffs or nationalize foreign corporations so they would oppose big government wouldn’t they? And central planning would mess up urban food prices and consumerism so they must love laissez faire economics..

    • Winston

      Also liberals assumed the rival elites would be at each others throats yet the opposite seems to be happening.

      • Hyperion

        We just need a new world order and great reset and that will fix everything.

  24. trshmnstr the terrible

    Hey all, I’m collecting can lids for SP.

    1) Take a lid, rusty or not (preferably a canning lid, but whatever you can get), write your glibs handle on it along with a message of appreciation for her immense contributions to this site. NOTE: you may get better results using a fineliner permanent marker.

    2) email me at trashy-glibs [at] disengage [dot] co (and let me know what your glibs handle is) to get the destination address for the lid.

    3) shove the lid in an envelope and get it in the mail by April 1st.

    Once I get all the lids, I’ll assemble them in a way that only a trash monster can, and I’ll send it up to SP to replenish her stock and keep OMWC in check.

    I’ll continue posting this in the links threads this week.

    NOTE: Athena has graciously offered to put messages on lids for those who, for whatever reason, can’t. (athenaofprogtown at the gmail)

    There have been some issues with emails not making it through the masking. If you haven’t heard from me in 24 hours, let me know on here.

    • Hyperion

      It’s best you save them for when the dollar is worth less than TP in a few short years…

      • MikeS

        Canning items are actually something I would stock up on.

        I mean, I don’t have any, like zero. So don’t think you can be coming here and getting mine!

      • Hyperion

        You’re going to need something to put in them. Which is why my wife and I keep arguing over buying the prettiest house or getting the most land we can. I’m 100% for the land, I’ll sleep on the fucking ground if I can raise my own food. A pretty house is not worth anything if you cannot afford food.

      • MikeS

        We should be able to grow enough (for 3 months a year) on our 10 acres to fill a couple jars.

        A hydroponic grow operation (for FOOD people!) in the basement is also something I’ve thought about for winter. Also, deep winter greenhouses are a thing. I should probably get some of this plan (after I devise a plan) into action now instead of hoping I can do it when the SHTF

      • Hyperion

        “on our 10 acres”

        I’m jealous. I had 25 acres and sold it. I regret that. I just started my first hypropnic plants, toally LED, I have no light outside for growing, too many old growth trees.

        I started out very small just to practice, but my hydroponic lettuce, I can almost watch it grow, it took off, my tomatoes are a little behind it and the peppers just out of baby leaves now. I think I get it now, I I’m going to rapidly expand this. I think I’ll add another small plot and then a bigger one if I continue to learn and get results.

      • MikeS

        Did you go straight to DIY hydro, or did you start with one of those all-in-one set-ups? Like this.

      • Hyperion

        Yes, like that one, only one of the good ones, they’re way too expensive, but I was willing to pay it to learn with.

        As soon as I get another one hooked up, my next thing will be building a DIY Kratky system with pump, fan, the best lights I can get.

      • MikeS

        And taking pictures and writing a multipart article about it for Glibs. Right?

      • Hyperion

        I’m definitely considering that, I’d love to share this info with other Glibs. I don’t have much to share yet, I’m a noob. But I’d love to get more into this and have discussions. I’m 13 days in and 100% germination with 2 year old seeds. I got to find the rest of my seed stash, I’ve misplaced them…

    • hayeksplosives

      Thanks for the reminder!! I gotta dig for a suitable lid…

      • Mojeaux

        Dude, I just opened a can of tuna and washed off the lid and wrote on it.

      • hayeksplosives

        Dumb question, but isn’t that a bit sharp?

      • Hyperion

        I just bought one of those openers that leaves a completely smooth edge. Works. Then I bought one of those indestuctilbe old school Japonese ones for when this one breaks like the last 20…

      • db

        Uh, isn’t that the point?

      • hayeksplosives

        I suppose. I thought the jagged can thing was more of a metaphor though.

        But Trashy says he can deal with it, so a Friskies lid it will be.

      • Mojeaux

        I might be concerned if SP were, in fact, 9, but she is not, in fact, 9, and can handle herself around sharp objects.

      • MikeS

        I wish there was something we used from a #10 can. That would be funny AF.

        Someone send in a #10 can lid. Write big.

      • hayeksplosives

        Dark red kidney beans for giant vat of chili!!

    • db

      I have not heard back from you, Mr. e-mail harvester bot.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        *twirls mustache*

        I don’t see an email in the queue or my inbox. Perhaps Tonio could get us connected behind the scenes.

      • MikeS

        Perhaps Tonio could get us connected behind the scenes.

        You mean like, on the down low?

    • Mojeaux

      I got your initial email. I returned the email confirming I had sent the lid.

    • db

      do you really mean “[dot] co/strong>”?

      • db

        derp

      • db

        Well, that’s where I sent my original e-mail.

        Any chance they’re rejecting messages from Proton?

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        Ive gotten other messages from proton, so I don’t think that’s the problem. They’re not supposed to be rejecting anything because I can turn off the email address with a flip of a switch when it gets spammy. This has happened before and tech support at Abine had to fix it. Until they do, an email here or there may disappear into the ether. ?

        Maybe try reforwarding the message to me to test if it was a transient issue. Otherwise, I’ll wait for Tonio to make the connection.

      • db

        All right, I’ve sent it again. Hope it comes through this time.

  25. Tundra

    My son is in the Netherlands this week. He’s been sending pictures so now I have another goddamn item on the bucket list.

    I better live to like 120.

    • pistoffnick the refusnik

      …I have another goddamn item on the bucket list.

      Do it!
      I’ve only been once. It is worth it.

      • Tundra

        I’ve been through Schiphol a bunch of times. I had no idea it was attached to such a beautiful country!

      • Hyperion

        I worked with a girl from Amsterdam. She had one of those Van something names you know. She was 22 years old and hot as fuck, I mean all of the guys where were like holy fuck, and single and so was I, but 20 years older than her but she was super friendly with me. And I dindonuthin, I was dating this latina chick, as usual. Sometimes I kick myself in the arse when it’s way too late to matter. I stopped working for that client and we lost contact. Fuck, I have to stop reminding myself of how dumb I am.

    • Hyperion

      Amsterdam? Better stock up on lots of supercentenarian viagara before you go.

    • DEG

      Amsterdam is a good place, and it is more than pot and hookers.

      Utrecht is a nice little town.

      • Hyperion

        “it is more than pot and hookers.”

        Why?

      • Hyperion

        Oh fuck, I forgot beer.

      • Tundra

        He’s in Delft, visiting his best friend who is doing graduate work at the university there. Really cool looking place – with its own nuclear reactor!

      • Mojeaux

        So, my dad served his LDS mission in Holland, taught me a wee bit of Dutch when I was a wee bit of a thing. I have earrings and a necklace he sent back to his mother from Delft. He learned to love Indonesian food there. In the winter, when the canals would freeze, he would get everywhere by skating.

      • Tundra

        …he would get everywhere by skating.

        Officially aroused.

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        I gotta dig up some of my Netherlands images and write an article about ’em.

        For now, I recommend:

        1. Amsterdam (natch). One of the great walking cities of the world. Get off in Schiphol, take the underground to Centraal Station in Amsterdam, and plop yourself down in the Ibis Hotel right next to the station, which is pricey but so damned central to everything that it’s worth it for the lack of PITA.
        2. Groningen (both a province and a city, with a great University) next to the province of Friesland (where my wife’s ancestors hail from and where she still has lots of very interesting and educated family); and
        3. Leeuwarden (in Friesland proper), which is a beautiful smaller city with an amazing canal system running through it — great place to take a multi-day canal tour! Also had some family there, but they’ve all either died or moved elsewhere in the Netherlands.

        And Tundra, if you like skating, there’s an amazing canal connecting to Bruges/Brugge (in Belgium) that you can skate on in the winter, which, depending on the winter, can get you all over Belgium via skate.

        I love that area of Europe, sort of the spiritual and thermal counterpart to Spain.

      • Tundra

        Thank you.

        I’m definitely going. But mama just informed me it won’t be in the winter!

      • Gustave Lytton

        Counterpoint.

        Amsterdam is a dirty city. The Portland of Europe.

        Van Gogh is an overrated hack. Do visit the eponymous museum so you can the crap up close. I’d rather see an elementary school art show.

        Fried potatoes with mayo is good. So are the ham sandwiches from a food cart.

        Bols Museum is all PR and partly phony baloney, but you can get genever there you can’t get in the US.

        Shopping is pretty good. Dutch sounds like Canadian German to my ears and is also understandable.

        Eat dinner at Hap Hmm
        https://www.hap-hmm.nl/

        If you fly KLM Business, you get a Delft Blue house. I have four on the mantle so far.
        https://www.klm.us/information/travel-class-extra-options/houses

      • Hyperion

        Nuclear is bad! Why are they trying to kill the planet with cheap abundant energy? They already had windmills!

      • l0b0t

        Indeed. The Maritime Museum is absolutely amazing and is far better trip than the overpriced, overcrowded Anne Frank House. Also, savory pancakes are bloody delicious (who knew turkey curry on flapjacks was so good).

      • DEG

        Yes, the Maritime Museum is good.

        db suggested the Dutch Resistance museum back in the H&R days. I stopped in based on his recommendation, and it is good.

      • db

        Glad you liked it!

    • Hyperion

      Which NFL team does he currently play for?

      • Sean

        21 year old chick.

      • Hyperion

        It’s about time they let females play in the NFL.

      • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

        So she swims for Penn then.

    • Hyperion

      Wait, I know this story. That kid was just notdoinnuthin wasn’t he? Walking home from school with his skittles when those white hispanic cops started chasing him down the highway and made him crash?

  26. Aloysious

    Late to the party, as usual.

    Thanks to pistoffnick for the cool article on Duluth.

  27. rhywun

    Have a terrifying look into the near future of digital FedBucks.

    They could represent the single greatest expansion of totalitarian power in history.

    Needless to say, Biden is all over this.

    • Hyperion

      Of course, that’s the plan. Ve needz a gwate weset. Did you not hear?

      • rhywun

        With Porky Pig at the top?

        “Huh huh huh huh huh!”

        *shudder*

    • Hyperion

      Sickos, I’m telling you, nothing else to this except government employees and activists who want to molest little kids.

      • hayeksplosives

        I used to think my husband was a kooky conspiracy theorist when he told me about how the government and Hollywood were full of pedos and coordinating to make it easier, legal, and eventually socially acceptable.

        “That’s nice, dear.” Pat-pat.

        Now I have to concede he was right about much of it.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Look at those teachers in that video.

        They’re predominantly white, overweight, and female. They’re graduates of the Ed schools. They’re probably midwits and still single.

        For them, this is about sticking a finger in the eye of conservative America. They’re enabling pedos, sure. But don’t underestimate how many of them are doing it as a reactionary action to what they perceive as c conservative troglodytes.

      • rhywun

        This. Most importantly, they’re getting these ideas at college.

      • Winston

        https://lawliberty.org/book-review/when-classical-liberals-went-to-the-mountaintop/

        Whether it is in the realm of policy or the marketplace of ideas, classical liberal priorities simply do not exercise the influence they did in the 1980s and early 1990s.

        https://www.aier.org/article/the-courage-to-be-utopian/

        Liberalism is a social philosophy that is grounded in the recognition of its constant need for renewal and reconstruction. It is never a fixed doctrine standing still and telling the context of history — STOP. It is, instead, a welcoming of the new and novel, of the fulfillment of its ideals, and the greater recognition that we are one another’s dignified equals.

        change is ceaseless, and the effort to improve institutions is constant.

        Dammit the ceaseless change and the desire for the new and novel has resulted in people now thinking that classical liberalism is one of those outdated backwards ideas we ought to get rid off. This Wasn’t Supposed to Happen!

      • Winston

        Oops, not supposed to be a reply…

    • Hyperion

      The virus will probably go on a ventilator and then die.

      • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

        The virus denies having any knowledge of Hillary Clinton.

    • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

      Y’know, you expect this virus to step up to the plate and get the job done, and it chokes just when it’s most needed.

      • hayeksplosives

        Hillary won’t die because Hell is full.

      • Hyperion

        Klaus haz a sad…

    • MikeS

      This should spawn a handful of wonderful Bee articles.

    • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

      But Djokovic is the dummy, amirite?

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        And a threat to society.

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      Perfectly normal, definitely not out of the ordinary. ????????

    • rhywun

      I wouldn’t rule out him making excuses for Fritz’s surprising win. He’s a jerk.

  28. Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

    Hello from somewhere north of Dominica!

    Roseau was very picturesque, but we were not allowed to wander around town.

    Tomorrow St. Kitts.

    • MikeS
      • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

        Slightly different

        https://ibb.co/Bj2CjvT

    • slumbrew

      Will be very interested in your impressions of St. Kitts – looking at going there in June (although leaning towards St. Maarten right now)

      • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

        I can tell you St Maarten was open & thriving & very few if any masks. I’ll let you know about St Kitts!

      • Tundra

        I love the Caribbean.

        Our one and only cruise there, though, frustrated me. As soon as I got the vibe of a place I had to get back on the boat.

        I might head down to one of the islands to wait out the apocalypse.

      • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

        I like it because I can get an idea of where I would take a land-based vacation without committing to a whole week or whatever. I really enjoyed Barbados. They seem to be doing well since they booted the Queen.

    • Tulip

      Roseau? My home town?

      • Tundra

        Go Rams!

      • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

        MN’s very own tropical paradise!

      • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

        Cool!!

  29. Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

    Shall I do a “What I Did on My Spring Break” sideshow Friday nite?

    • Ownbestenemy

      Of course! Wait…sanitized slideshow right?

  30. Winston

    Is Georges Danton the ultimate liberal? Supported non-state murder of reactionaries only to embrace the state executing reactionaries as a reformist measure and ended up being executed by the very same tribunal he created as a reactionary?

    This sort of hypocritical, unprincipled, statist, repressive, intolerant, elitist, presentist and short-sighted thinking has been there from the beginning.

    jeff Tucker is good modern day example. He supported the Deep State and Big Tech against Trump and the Alt-Right only to find they don’t like him for the Great Barrington Declaration…

    • MikeS

      Are you on drugs?

      • Winston

        You aren’t?

  31. Winston

    https://lawliberty.org/book-review/when-classical-liberals-went-to-the-mountaintop/

    Undergirding everything, however, was a desire to understand why collectivist outlooks had established such a grip on the Western imagination, and how that vice might be loosened.

    There was considerable agreement that liberals needed to devote more attention to the legal frameworks within which economies operated. Likewise, the discussion of history raised many participants’ awareness of just how much the writing of history, especially the popular histories in which Marxist historians often specialized, shapes the trajectory of contemporary political debates.

    direct confirmation of how much the Nazi state’s increasing control of the economy had contributed to the dictatorship’s grip on power

    So 75 years ago the folks at the Mont Perelin identified many of the serious issues we are still facing today but they failed to deal with it and these things gave gotten much worse…