We were clued into a new level of the functional insanity of Sugarfree the other day. It was decided we compare a few notes in an attempt to see if a concept is financially viable. As you probably know, the Rorschach Inkblot Test is designed to identify details within personalities. There are no wrong answers.
So we asked, what do you see?
Warty: That’s clearly a dick with two nutsacks.
Spudalicious: An aardvark with a short nose.
BrettL: Angry lady parts
Sugarfree: “The Tree of Life. Pooping.”
BrettL: Ross Perot
JW: Badger Perot
Sugarfree: A pelvis arguing with itself.
OMWC: A space plane mutilating toddlers on a swingset.
BrettL: Alien threesome.
JW: Ladyboy bongos—which incidentally, will be the name of my band if I ever have one.
Sugarfree: Two women tearing a child in half
Spudalicious: Two trannies banging Nutrias.
BrettL: Lesbians fighting over a coffee table, week 3.
Jesse.in.mb: Two women twerking in front of a bow-tied, but otherwise invisible man who is giving a thumbs up on both sides
Sugarfree: Butterfly dives…or blood of old ghosts still wet
I think we have our answer.
What do you see?
A womb and ovaries.
You always say that.
At least I’m not this guy?
That was supposed to be a statement…what is proofreading?
Don’t overthink it.
You always say that.
To be fair, all Rorschach inkblots look like a womb and ovaries. It Is Known.
Pixels on a monitor.
A graphic expression of Hermann Rorscharch’s psychological problems?
2 Ponies looking in a hole
The first one? Kurt Vonnegut.
After he shaved?
Note: not a dirty comment. He had a beard and mustache in most of the pictures I saw of him.
I actually guffawed.
1/ Mooterus: not serious answer based on my north Texas issues you’ve all heard repeatedly
2/ avocado peeler made from an old transmission valve body
3/ 59 Chevy lube job gone bad
4/ Mayan clown’s skull
“Two trannies banging nutrias.”
I can’t unsee it now. Thanks a lot, Spud.
https://youtu.be/pzBDhnWK6zg?t=216s
That’s a bird, that’s a cow, that’s a horse with a hat on.
1 – An aardvark playing linebacker, with eyeblack on for the big game
2 – Two ears with a diamondback making its way north between them
3 – OMG, I need a doctor!! I see the same thing OMWC does!
4 – A woman washing clothes in front of a mirror
What do I win??
What do I win??
a series of free inoculations from the Corps?
Again? That seems to be the prize every time, no matter the contest.
Injected from Obama’s corpseman
Number one is a tiny headed giant on a jet pack
Number 2 is 8 kickstands tow thumbs and a buttplug, odd collage choice
Number 3 is an alien with bloodshot eyes.
Number 4 I think Spud is correct.
My late x-wife X 3 and her mother.
Vast white supremacist plot to subvert peaceful protests confirmed in Las Vegas!
And how many well meaning Antifa members have been let back into the wild after getting picked up?
In St Louis, all of them apparently.
Yes, 100’s in NYC every night.
There’s no proof antifa is involved in anything! No one can find any anywhere!
The right vaguely plans to do some bullshit that they communicate to a likely FBI instigator and they get crushed, the left’s crazy ass foot soldiers are out there actually doing crazy shit and they get treated with kid gloves.
Yup. Longstanding, well funded nationwide network of leftist extremists highacking protests, and this is what the feds do.
Don’t get me wrong, they probably needed arresting. But seriously, no high-profile arrests of antifa by the G-Men?
Fuck Barr. Fuck the DOJ. Fuck the FBI. All swamp, all lefties, all the time.
Prove me wrong.
The entire DOJ and any associated agencies should just be dismantled at this point. They’ve become politicized to the point of no return.
Sounds like they didn’t actually do anything.
The FBI? Entrap people? Never.
https://youtu.be/JA4pM5znawo?t=10
It’s like the terrorist busts where there wouldn’t have been a plan without FBI instigation as far as I can tell.
Actual for real white supremacists are probably at home laughing their asses off right now. The media showing non-stop clips of black people killing each other, beating up whities, and acting out every negative stereotype.
Do you mean the proud, avowed racists or the racists whose policy preferences all just happen to result in immiserating black people?
Actually, I think the answer is yes.
*Shrugs* Race relations are at a 50-year low and they didn’t have to lift a finger. Hell, they didn’t have to exist.
50-year low
There are issues, but it’s apples and oranges in my world.
You deserve poetic license, and I’m being a shit pedant, but I would share this tachometer YMMV. The number of people who would enjoy (or enjoy watching or hearing of) protesters being shot and buried in a levee is approaching zero. The number of people who don’t really see race, who are glad to have someone of a different race added by the starter to fill out their foursome, who couldn’t care less that the restaurant cliente is 50/50, or who tip their hat or hold a door to/for everyone is literally orders of magnitudes better than it was fifty years ago.
My world is probably a lot more f*ed up than the rest, and MS doesn’t have the market on racism cornered, but I’ve ridden the roller coaster. I see black kids wearing Ole Miss swag all the time, unheard of for even years after Meredith was admitted.
OT: I lost this post and tried to search by “shit” and that did not speed up things very much
1) Dodge Ram logo
2)shucked oyster
3)murder hornet
4)furniture movers
Dragging replies I was going to make on the now-superseded morning lynx to here…
Mojeaux – Yes, a man could absolutely suddenly be sexually interested in a woman he wasn’t interested in prior. This is greatly influenced by two factors: her availability and his lack of options. Example: in my 20s I had a good friend who I really wasn’t attracted to. However, that didn’t stop us from having several drunken hook-ups. I didn’t have any immediate alternatives, and apparently she didn’t either because she completely threw herself at me. This happened three or four times, with a decent time interval passing between each instance and no change in our friendship either – IOW, there was never any interest on either side for any kind of romantic relationship. So there it was – she was available and I didn’t have any better options at the time. Nowadays, psychotic leftist that she is, she undoubtedly would have accused me of raping her because she was drunk and “couldn’t consent”, though a)I was no more sober than she and b)I would have considered yanking my pants off and diving for my crotch to be pretty convincing evidence of consenting.
JB – Orwell was indeed a socialist, but what’s happening to the few leftists to push back against the dominant narratives right now tells me that his ideology would not shield him at all. He’s still a privileged white man, after all.
Orwell was indeed a socialist, but what’s happening to the few leftists to push back against the dominant narratives right now tells me that his ideology would not shield him at all. He’s still a privileged white man, after all.
I missed whatever spurred this discussion as I’m just getting on Glibs now, so drugs might fall out of my ass.
Not only was he a privileged white man, he was also critical of the authoritarian tendencies of Socialism. Either one would get him unpersoned among modern Progressives/Marxists/other fellow travellers.
I was responding to this exchange:
mrfamous on June 5, 2020 at 10:38 am
What do you suppose the percentage chance is that George Orwell would have gotten his Twitter account suspended by now?
Reply
Juvenile Bluster on June 5, 2020 at 10:46 am
Orwell no, because despite what he said he was a socialist, so he had the right ideas.
Now (C.S.) Lewis and Huxley? Definitely banned.
Ah. Orwell would get banned from twitter.
As I pointed out in the dead thread, he was kind of unpersoned in his own day. He had a hell of a time getting his works published, as nearly every publisher he went to refused because they were in love with Stalinism and Orwell wanted to get the truth out. It bothers me a bit to link to the Grauniad but they have a good (if short) piece on this here.
Thanks! Whether or not men can or cannot be, I wrote it that she got out of the friend-zone (but I also eliminated her competition in various ways) because Romance Novel.
1 – Female reproductive system
2 – A penis-eye view of a woman in legs on shoulder sex position
3 – Alien threesome
4 – Two women going down on a guy
I wonder about the people that show me dirty pictures.
I’m beginning to believe this once great country is too big and too diverse to try to manage. De-centralization sounds like a good idea. Can be on present state lines and agreements with adjacent states that will be free trade within that trade area plus free trade with any other adjacent trade areas. Freedom of movement as well.
A national divorce into several independent states would be preferable as things stand right now. It’s unfortunate but we hate each other.
We could give federalism a try.
All I see in all those pictures is Messican Ass Sex! Is that the correct answer?
OT: The Clown Prince is crafty and tricksy
Sunbathing and other traditional beach activities will be allowed immediately at state beaches on the Seacoast, the governor announced in a press release Friday.
Beaches were allowed to reopen Monday, but visitors were required to keep moving, walking, running, swimming or surfing. No sitting in the sand was allowed as the state hoped to continue to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus.
Now, beachgoers can sunbathe and take part in other traditional beach activities as long as they continue to maintain a distance of 6 feet from other groups of people.
Tomorrow is the Storm the Beaches ReopenNH rally. I think the Clown Prince made this move in an attempt to take the wind out of the sails of the rally. It doesn’t matter. The rally is still on.
Persona non Greta
Greta Thunberg✔
@GretaThunberg
Still waiting for the EU and individual democratic nations to officially condemn the police brutality and attacks on the free press escalating the USA.
For how long are we going to stand by, watch and say nothing?
1) I have no idea what she is talking about.
2) Does any Euro really have any grounds to comment on policing and the freedom of the press in the US?
Well, now that Gretel is a certified world leader, yes she does.
Poor Greta. Belle of the ball, but now she has to constantly scramble to stay in front of the cameras. First the ‘Vid, now this.
I was hoping she would scold the looters for not being environmentally friendly. Also all of the poster board.
Most Americans don’t have grounds to comment on policing and freedom of the press.
Those Charlie Hebdo writers had it coming for being so naughty wrongthinkers.
That news anchor and photographer killed by a falling tree branch in 2018? TOTALLY TRUMP’S FAULT.
I learned early in life that participating in these tests lends legitimacy to the premise of them. I see a desperate attempt by an over-educated muddy thinking psych major to extrapolate his/her views on greater society by making up whatever sounds impressive. Do I win?
BTW, that’s not directed at Mexi, it’s what I would say (and did say) the white coat assholes who did it to me as a child.
I’m a Chemistry major. It’s cool.
Sounds like the Tech Boom of the early ’80s. I have a dream but unfortunately no one else shares in it.
Early 2000s.
You were right both times.
Yes, as a field, psychiatry is mostly bullshit. Some of the drugs work, though the most popular ones are horribly over-prescribed to people who don’t really need them. But that’s about it.
The first one, I saw a Ram. (Disclaimer: Dream car is a Dodge Ram, non-dually, diesel, manual.)
The rest I saw elementary/bad abstract art and/or watercolor practice.
What do I see?
What happens when a five year old gets his mitts on your sharpies and watercolors.
1. Obviously a Tri-Cock
2. A military style semi-automatic assault Tri-Cock
3. An antique collectible Tri-Cock
4. A fully automatic Tri-Cock
So those are the ones that have the thing that goes up?
OT: Someone BLM will ignore
Walter Ogrod spent more than 23 years on death row, insisting he had been wrongfully convicted for killing 4-year-old Barbara Jean Horn in Northeast Philadelphia in 1988.
On Friday, the criminal justice system agreed.
Common Pleas Court Judge Shelley Robins-New overturned Ogrod’s conviction, citing what prosecutors and defense attorneys agreed were critical flaws in his case, including evidence withheld by police and the prosecutors who put him behind bars.
Naturally, the announcement was accompanied by indictments of the police and prosecutors.
Look justice has to be appeased, weather or not you did it. Thats what the cops are doing is making sure someone pays.
That might have a chilling effect on falsely arresting and convicting innocent men.
Wasn’t the Z Cavaricci shirt enough? You want real evidence?
NO MO PO PO!
Let the great city of Miniwokieappolis show us the way!
Damn your nimble fingers! See below.
Once again, terrible timing!
They want social workers and emt’s to handle non-violent crime. I am sure that will go over well. Not even to mention those people have no more jurisdiction arrest anyone than I do.
So basically, they send in the social workers, who can’t handle the situation and then call the cops, who arrive and shoot everyone? Sounds like a plan.
If it results in the killing of all the social workers, is that a bad thing??
Fun Twitter thread from McArdle on that
https://twitter.com/asymmetricinfo/status/1268612541824897024
JFC these people are a horrific combination of obtuse and mendacious:
Motte, Bailey
Also I note that the exact people screaming “abolish the police” also want to outlaw firearm ownership, or at least restrict it as much as possible.
This is outright class warfare. You shouldn’t have so much property, so these people are perfectly justified in liberating your property, and we’re going to make sure you don’t have any effective way to stop them.
Kipling quote is apropos,
The goal is power, not reform.
Yeah, I can get behind abolishing the police, or at least I don’t think it’s unreasonable or undesirable on its face, but the caveat is that people have to be free to provide for their own security in whatever ways they deem fit, provided those ways don’t prevent others from exercising the same right. Setting aside that once you’ve eliminated police it’s going to be damnably difficult to enforce a ban on firearm ownership.
They don’t want to eliminate policing. They want to end the pretense that policing is done impartially. They will be fine with “citizen’s groups” policing, as long as it is the good citizen’s groups like acorn and antifa and not the white supremacist ones like us.
Yeah i saw that and found it annoying. So you don’t push for it. But people are and she is trying to understand them. So go fuck off and stop trying to make her look stupid, cause you are the only one coming off that way.
The funniest ones are the lefties, I’m sure all of whom are college educated and consider themselves smarter than the average person, and smarter than every Republican, who don’t seem to grok that tax collection requires force.
Like, they’re in the comments going “Liens!!! Electronic bank information!!! Regulation!!!”
But if theres no police, no one will voluntary comply with that shit.
https://twitter.com/Tom_Maguire/status/1268620486512193536
This fucking moron.
As always, the “softer touch” works for some but not others. Some will comply, and some won’t. New divisions in society will be created, and old ones reinforced, between the more-or-less compliant and the more-or-less uncompliant.
Nobody has gone to jail for not registering for Selective Service but most people still do it, and not being able to get student loans or government jobs plays a part in that.
I pinky swear that all the info on this invasive census form is true.
/P.O. Orkypig
“Nobody has gone to jail for not registering for Selective Service but most people still do it, and not being able to get student loans or government jobs plays a part in that.”
Stalin vs Brehzhnev.
In 1940, if you published a mildly critical article in the Party weekly, you went to Siberia. In 1970, if you published a mildly critical article in the Party weekly, the local Party man would invite you over for tea, you’d chat about it, about other things, and then oh terribly sorry Vanya, we have moved you down the list for a new apartment. I know, terrible news, you were hoping for that second bedroom with the new baby on the way.
Nonsense like selective service, reporting requirements and the rest of the bureaucratic administrative crap that we enforce is not the problem with eliminating the police. The problem is that there really are, no matter how much we want to pretend there aren’t, large numbers of people who are restrained from raping, robbing and killing their neighbors by the threat of force. ASbolishing the police will both eliminate the threat of force (yes, I have guns too, but I am not home all day long, and I am not watching over my loved ones 24 /7) and send a signal that mayhem is now ok (witness the speed at which looting starts and spreads when people see even a temporary suspension of policing in an area).
Not all the laws we enforce are victimless crimes.
It’s funny, he really doesn’t get that when a government policy doesn’t provide a benefit it has to be enforced through the threat of violence. Once licensing goes beyond something like a Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval you need some way to force compliance, which isn’t possible in an environment of purely voluntary interaction, which is what you’d get without police to enforce the state’s will.
Black Market!
Megan McArdle has been driven insane by the Covid. In. Fucking. Insane.
I mean she’s right here but overall, her feed has become the worst. All the technocratic libertarians have been pretty much wrong on Covid but it’s undeniable some of them are just hysterical about it at this point.
The Front Row Kids. They did great in school, went to good colleges, their whole lives have been about existing in the framework of intellectuals and words. They Believe in Science.
I was a Front Row Kid (more or less). Yet I find these people obnoxious, their ideas shallow, and their adherence to the opinions of others cliquish.
Can’t argue that – she was one of the more vocal Branch Covidians.
I was super confused at first, because i had confused her with Angela McArdle (?) the chair of the LA LP.
She went insane with her TDS and the Russia hoax. I stopped reading her completely after her take on Don Jr.’s meeting with a Russian lawyer.
I really have no problem with that. I have a problem with the non-violent crime part, which I imagine will expand to include property crimes and misdemeanor assaults. I imagine social workers will show up with reams and reams of welfare applications under the theory that all crime is a function of poverty, and will want to alleviate poverty through welfare rather than alleviating indolence through opportunity. They won’t by psychiatrists or therapists, they’ll be activists. A new social works program of larcenous picketing and “protests.”
What could possibly go wrong?
Nothing, progtopia awaits!
Oh hey, look who it is – Brother Keith’s Antifa-booster son.
“Joining her is fellow (can we say that?)“
I think “comrade” would be more appropriate.
Think about what could go right.
Not every city is going to do this. There’s no fucking way Texas is going to do this or Oklahoma is going to do this.
We are going to get a real test-case scenario, controls and guinea pigs.
Unfortunately, the leaders of the cities whose residents become victims to this experiment won’t learn a thing. See: the “war on poverty” for one decades-long example.
When the bay area started the cower in place avalanche, I said “thank God we are in Texas, that would never happen here.” I think our lockdown orders came 2 weeks later.
Minneapolis City Council vows to ‘dismantle’ police department: report
Minneapolis will be rubble in a few years. Don’t get me wrong I’m for changing the way we police, I’m just not for the leftist ideas of change.
Your timing is terrible!
.064124 seconds terrible.
If you’re not first, you’re last.
Hell, I’m lagging wayyyy behind by 6 minutes.
Imagine there’s no money…it’s easy if you try.
Antifa Marked Richmond Federal Courthouse For Potential Arson
A federal courthouse in Richmond, Virginia, was vandalized with a mark indicating it had been designated as a “target for potential vandalism/arson” by antifa, according to an FBI Situational Information Report issued Tuesday obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.
“FBI Norfolk received information indicating the Richmond Federal Courthouse exterior walls were spray painted with a thick black line around the entire exterior,” the report states, adding that the black line “has been used by anarchist/ANTIFA as a marker to designate a target for potential vandalism/arson.”
The FBI was notified of the marking one day after being notified by an officer of another law enforcement agency that unidentified individuals “believed to be members, or associates, of a local anarchist/ANTIFA group,” were “overheard discussing burning down the Richmond courthouse,” according to the report.
The Richmond Police Department said it seized fire accelerants along with multiple handguns, gas masks and sets of ballistic body armor after arresting seven individuals early Wednesday morning. It’s unclear if those individuals are connected to the earlier vandalism of the Richmond courthouse.
There’s no evidence of antifa being up to any mischief. The FBI just said so!
Fucking hell – I moved back to Richmond almost a decade ago because it was a nice, normal place to raise kids (and because my family is here). It’s turning into fucking Portland now.
I blame the Robert E. Lee statue. It is clearly the cause of all problems in the city.
Not any more. Utopia awaits!
Gov. Blackface McKlansman can drop it off at my place. I could use a lawn ornament.
I’ll tell you this much – it will be a very long time before I spend a dime inside the city limits again. I’ll keep my money in Henrico and Hanover, thank you very much.
If its as ugly as the one in Salt Lake City, i might see why they want to do that.
/Preet Disclaimer. I am not suggesting that anyone burn down the courthouse, just that i think this one is hideous.
Holy shit, that’s heinous. Worse than my nomination.
That one is pretty bad too. The shit that i hate about this too, if i’m going to get my leftist artistic sensibility on, is that it is completely at odds with the surrounding 1920’s vibe of the architecture in SLC.
There’s nothing leftist about that. Being “different” for different’s sake isn’t necessarily a laudable goal. IMHO.
The buffalo courthouse looks very much like it was designed to present a giant Swastika when viewed from above.
…did someone forget the sheathing and finish?
Don’t the U.S. Marshals typically handle court security?
JFC – no one posted this here did they? This is the chair of the Minneapolis city council:
Depends – will you come after me when I shoot the people breaking into my garage?
I know I keep saying this, but things just keep getting more ridiculous: this is absolutely fucking insane. This is the person in charge of the legislative body of a major city scolding people who might not appreciate being robbed. If the decriminalization of petty larceny or the theft of “necessities” didn’t already indicate it, the left is pushing to legalize theft on a massive scale.
We could use a serious rethinking of how policing is done in this country done by serious people who have actually studied the issue in a serious manner.
What we’re going to get instead is the worst possible solution coming from the worst sorts of people. Something that will reaffirm every law and order type’s law and order boner.
Exactly right. Stop criminalizing trivial things, end qualified immunity, get rid of cop unions, fire/prosecute abusive thug cops. You still need some sort of police force, and if the government won’t provide it than armed vigilantes will.
Yes, and then you’ll see lynchings in greater number. And i don’t mean the racially charged version of that. I mean extra-judicial killings by vigilantes. Like in Hang ’em High.
Yep. As they say, police exist just as much for the protection of criminals from angry citizens.
There’s a much bigger lie there: that the size of the force has anything to do with minimizing the crime rate.
Isn’t that pretty much every leftist revolution? Let criminals victimize their enemies while the police and government stand by or say they had it coming?
What kind of mental defective would own a business in Minneapolis after this?
There’s 400k+ people in Minneapolis. Not nearly enough Uhauls for everyone to move out this weekend.
Depends on the incentives, no?
You watch – there will be plenty of ‘programs’ to get businesses back into the shithole.
What incentive could there possibly be that would offset the fact that theft will be more or less encouraged by the city government?
Somehow I’m reading it that Lisa Bender is warning people who want to dismantle the police that there will be consequences they won’t like.
Yes, but only because she doesn’t want to hear crime victims complaining in the future – “Hey, I told you that you were gonna have to suck it up”
the left is pushing to legalize theft on a massive scale.
I guess we don’t need a wealth tax anymore.
In all fairness, once they’re done burning everything there will be no wealth left to tax.
I used to get that a lot when I bothered talking to people in forums about police reform. “People like you are the first to cry for the police when someone’s breaking into your house!” “I’ll make you a deal. I’m on the pay-no-mind list for the local PD, and in exchange I can purchase and own any firearms I want. Deal?”
I cannot express how pissed off and frustrated I am that yet another opportunity to have a serious debate about police corruption and police brutality has been hijacked by #BLM. It could’ve been about ending no-knock warrants, defanging the police unions, eliminating qualified immunity, but no. Now it’s about Drew Brees not bending the knee and “white supremacy”. When I die and find out the answers to all life’s mysteries I swear to God one of them will be that Black Lives Matter is a psyop run by the FBI to distract people from police reform.
There is a small part of me that feels like, “if you had listened to the libertarians 10 years ago this could have been headed off with reform” but that is, I think, assigning more rationality to any of the current actions than they warrant.
Lord, if there’s one common thread for this whole damn year so far (if not all the ones preceding) it’s a complete lack of rationality on the part of the American people.
“When I die and find out the answers to all life’s mysteries ”
Promise to come back to me in a dream and give me those answers so I can die a happy man
What makes you think the answers will you happy?
Yep. It ultimately had fuck-all to do with George Floyd or police brutality. It’s nothing more than a pretext.
After all the people who founded the formal Black Lives Matter organization are Marxists, so none of this should be surprising.
I share your frustration. For about a day it seemed like everyone was on the same page. And then all of a sudden it became about race and politics, which are both perpetual wars that will never end. Scott Adams said something the other day on his daily video. If everyone who agreed on this issue got together we’d be unstoppable. But as long as we’re divided by race the people in power are protected and nothing will change.
They want a society of blood feuds and violent retribution. You shoot a thief, their people will come lynch you.
Something consequences something not unintended.
https://twitter.com/cricketmelon/status/1268315054073470976
Off their fucking rockers.
The mafia is going to make a serious comeback if these lunatics get their way, and people will welcome them with open arms.
The first half was going so well, the second half went off the rails. “Poverty” in the United States is not like poverty in much of the rest of the world. A stolen bicycle sold for parts to pay for drugs is not going to be ameliorated with handouts.
Bullshit.
A la the Les Miserables discussion running over the past couple threads, most (read: all) of what is stolen is not bread. Sure, you can sell that stolen TV for money and use the money to buy bread, but if you are in that position you can qualify for food stamps. Of course, then you’ll sell the food stamps for cash…
Only poor kids steal! It’s a known fact.
I went to a chi-chi private high school. I was one of the poorest kids there, and my family wasn’t remotely poor in any objective sense, solidly middle class. One of my classmates, son of a wealthy attorney, was busted for breaking into cars to steal high-end stereos.
Per their own political theory, it’s only the rich that steal. She’s being self-contradictory at best.
Lots of violent repeat offenders have jobs. The violence is their primary motivation; the money is like the cherry on top.
We call a lot of them “Officer”
Yessir. There wasn’t much street crime in mob neighborhoods. Little old ladies didn’t get mugged on corners because you might be mugging Carlo Gambino’s auntie or something. If that meant accepting a fair bit of corruption and the occasional hit, then it was an acceptable trade off.
Oh, and this person is apparently a teacher of some sort, because going to her profile page reveals:
How on the nose.
Exactly this.
And mob controlled neighborhoods aren’t exactly known for their racial understanding.
Also, what happens to thieves who get caught robbing the wrong people in mob neighborhoods makes all but the most heinous police brutality look like a tickle fight in comparison.
In law school, I lived a block from a known mafia hangout. It was widely regarded as a very safe neighborhood in a part of town that was otherwise sketchy.
Our labs in NJ were near a hang-out – we had lunch there with some frequency, but were warned to NEVER go for dinner. Mirrors on all the walls, Sinatra and Dino all the time.
This makes me want to mention her twitter handle to her students.
What are the odds Q sees tits in at least one of these? Maybe the first if he’s had a few?
I dunno. I saw dicks in three of them….
Have a news-itorial from the NY Post trying to pin a “startling” rise in ‘vid cases on the riots. It’s like their “news” page doesn’t talk to their editorial page.
15 People Died In The Protests And Riots Following George Floyd’s Death. Here’s Who They Are
God that’s depressing. I’m going to share that with someone who told me last night that she wasn’t aware that anyone has died during the riots, that the riots aren’t really that big a deal, and if anyone died it was “only a few people”. Because it’s Daily Caller she’ll ignore it, but who knows? Maybe it’ll get past all the static and register.
Because it’s Daily Caller she’ll ignore it
Post a summation with the link at the end.
God that’s depressing.
Those killed and I have heard there have been hundreds (at least) of significant injuries. Not good.
PROPERTY CAN BE REPLACED, LIVES CAN’T!!!!………..oh, wait……
FFS, add that to the list of things people say that make me want to commit heinous murder. If property was so easy to replace it wouldn’t be worth anything and we’d all be fat and drunk sitting by our pools outside of our mansions. The people who say that are people who don’t foresee themselves losing their property and likely didn’t have to sacrifice anything for the property they’ve got.
And if you still believe “property can be replaced, blah” then go have a chat with someone who lost their home in a flood.
Or someone whose business that he sweated blood for to make happen is now gone from the double blow of lockdowns and rioting, and will never come back, or the people who worked for those businesses who are now employed.
duh….unemployed, obviously
Don’t you know insurance covers white people? That’s our privilege, anything can be replaced at no cost.
Some property is truly irreplaceable. If the Islamists were to blow up the pyramids, we’d have no way to replace them. We could (but won’t) build new pyramids, but they would be a far cry from what was lost. Of course, this doesn’t even require a hypothetical as this has already happened to the Bamyan Buddhas, the remains of Palmyra and Timbuktu, dozens of churches, mosques of other Islamic sects, and even burial grounds of Muslims.
In an American context, there is a lot of history preserved through property, both of the modern European civilization and the various civilizations that preceded and were in some cases driven out by it. I’m not sure where the Native Americans stand on the grievance stack right now but I’m pretty sure bulldozing the mounds of Cohakia or blowing up the pueblos would not be seen as justifiable by the need for “justice”.
You can’t say ‘gentrification’ without some old stuff to build on.
You know what else can be replaced?
People. We do it all the time. We’re a renewable resource.
See! the rioters are helping with climate change! 15 less people polluting our beloved planet.
Mojeaux – When will the new book be available in print form?
In general agreement with most, but #3 looks like an angry jellyfish attacking an electronic assembly to me.
OT: Editorial about the Groveton, NH racetrack that held a race in defiance of the Clown Prince’s orders
WWLPD? “What Would Luther Parker Do?” Mike Humphrey knows. Humphrey is owner of Riverside Speedway in Groveton while Parker once helped govern the Indian Stream Republic.
A brief New Hampshire history lesson is necessary here. In 1832, the inhabitants of New Hampshire’s northern Coos County, frustrated by an ambiguous Canadian border and efforts by both New Hampshire and Canada to tax them, formed an independent nation – the Indian Stream Republic. Parker was a leader of the new country.
Attempts by both British Canada and New Hampshire to assert claims on the Indian Stream territory were resisted by inhabitants. “Streamers” (often fortified by liquor) were not averse to brandishing weapons in response to unfriendly approaches, whether from north or south.
Then in 1840 the town of Pittsburg was incorporated and Daniel Webster brought about an 1842 treaty clarifying the border and most of the Indian Stream Republic begrudgingly became part of New Hampshire.
But the independent character of the North Country continues to this day – embodied by Humphrey.
1. Football player with that anti-glare black face paint under his eyes.
2. Female pelvis x-ray.
3. 2 jelly fish riding on a hawk’s back.
4. 2 women shooting bloody breast milk at each other.
No clue.
Except for #3.
That’s clearly the P Funk Mothership returning to tell us of a glorious place far away from the troubles of this world.
‘Deaths of despair’ could outnumber deaths from the coronavirus itself
Wow, I can’t believe someone from the local TV station would notice this. Seriously, I’m shocked. But Let’s hope more people notice as well.
Fucking awful.
FEE, of course is on it.
Old gnus.
But, still waiting for the data. Hopefully this shiznit bounces back fast.
I’m trying not to think about this topic too much.
No question – next week I have to meet with the girlfriend and parents of a 20 year-old who committed suicide 2 weeks ago. It’s an avalanche of despair and it’s young people, not 85-year-olds in nursing homes. Last week we were talking to a girl in her 20’s who lost her partner.
OT: Where is OMWC?
A lost Maxis “Sim” game has been discovered by an Ars reader, uploaded for all
Who hasn’t wanted to start a huge fire, explosion or poison a lot of people? The good old days where the play-ability as compared to the graphics was the main thing.
Oooooh, I can’t wait for the Bhopal expansion pack!
Who hasn’t wanted to start a huge fire, explosion or poison a lot of people? The good old days where the play-ability as compared to the graphics was the main thing.
if you had asked me 10 days ago, my list would have included a lot more people than it does now.
Being downloaded now by antifa to optimize attacks on oil refineries.
Capitalists will sell us
the rope we’ll use to hang themthe refinery simulation we’ll use to blow it up.I’m sorry but Antifa doesn’t really exist. It’s just a general philosophy or some shit.
HURRRRRR IF ANTIFA EXISTS WHYCOME I NOT KNOW WHO LEADER IS?????
If the FBI put half the effort into investigating Antifa they’ve put into frame-jobs for Muslims and the boogaloos then we’d have a complete diagram of the entire organization’s membership and funding structure (along with a shitload of civil rights abuses, but hey this is the FBI we’re talking about).
Not to worry, as best I can tell, the refineries on the Houston Ship Channel have explored most of the failure modes pretty thoroughly. I doubt a pack of idjits with explosives could do more damage than the operators have already done.
When I was 10 or so I couldn’t understand why my city was rife with crime and fires. I’d set the tax on police and fire departments as low as possible!
If its as ugly as the one in Salt Lake City, i might see why they want to do that.
Holy mackerel. All it needs is “Ministry of Love” chiseled over the front door.
I know.
I’m sorry to hear about your mum. Hope things go well.
It’s kind of crazy that the protrump crowd of journo’s who I kind of always thought were dishonest conspiracy theory grifters have been proven to have far more integrity, far more honesty and been way closer to the mark about the depravity of the left than people I had the upmost respect for even 4 years ago. The people I used to respect have had their brains eaten by worms and while I still think many of the protrump crowd is comprised of dishonest grifters to a certain extent they are held to a far higher standard.
As much as I dislike Hannity, that SOB has been correct about most of the Russia collusion bullshit.
I don’t know if I’d go that far. Maybe for some of them, not all of them.
I will say, however, that I think a lot of the country-club GOP types in conservative media who shrugged off stories about how bugfuck-insane college campuses became over the past decade are getting their eyes opened. Those little bastards are out of school now and pulling the same shit on the general public that they did on campuses.
I would add, We always thought: Yeah, yeah, they can act like that on the university because it’s run by leftists, but in the real world they will have to deal with reality.
But then you find out that your mayor is a radical leftist who is saying we need to let them go.
But only because they’re being allowed to. The bosses of the NYT and of the universities have chosen to allow them to tear down freedom of expression and replace it with political correctness. If the first woke NYT writer had been smacked down hard when they called for censorship, we wouldn’t be here.
Liberalism’s (I mean free minds, free markets liberalism) Achilles heel has always been that it is civilized. A stable liberal polity is run by potbellied men with large libraries and wine cellars. Men who read quarterly journals. Men who value a polite debate about the nuances of the latest trade act. But those men have the vices of their virtues. They assume that their fellow citizens might be more liberal, might be less liberal, but that they are fundamentally liberal. It’s a fatal assumption.
Not for much longer I’m afraid.
The violent Marxist scum seems to believe that the population at large is as easily cowed as liberal university administrators, it seems.
Oh, the liberals don’t control the Democratic Party any more. It’s the progressives show now. It’s why I don’t think a vote for the Democrats is justifiable anymore.
Look at VA-7. When Dave Brat knocked out Eric Cantor, he ran against Jack Trammel a fellow faculty member at Randolph Macon. Small, liberal arts college professors running against each other. A conservative econ prof, and a liberal sociology professor. That was 2014.
Brat was knocked out in 2018 by a fucking CIA agent and crony capitalist named Spanberger. That’s the American Left now. CIA agents.
I was gonna say, No, the Dem party seems to be controlled by Never Trump deep state interests. But then you broguht up the CIA.
Could it be that the CIA was compromized by communists in a crazy plot by people still loyal to the USSR? geeze universe that script has been done, could we get some originality?
Who knows? A guy who voted for the CPUSA candidate for president was CIA director, so…..
I still get emails from that spook bitch, even though I told them I wanted to be “unsubscribed” (when I never subscribed in the first place). Makes me sick to even see her name.
Resurrecting a link from last night… Even Matthew fathertrucking Yglesias is concerned about the psychotic woke mob. He then deleted his entire tweet history after posting that spiel.
Well, you can see he still hasn’t grown a spine.
The IQ of his followers must be borderline cretinous. In response to police seemingly knocking an old man to the ground, he posted: “Too bad this guy’s not Australian.” He explained in another post that the Australian government stands up for its citizens, while ours doesn’t, but his followers were having none of that. They insisted that he must have specifically wanted this man to be Australian so that an Australian would be dead. Play that out in your head. Where is the logic in it? How does it make more sense that he’s “mocking” the victim, as some insist, rather than believing he’d make a point about differing attitudes with respect to the Australian or American governments? At most you could say that it’s a grim and unworthy joke, but they insisted that it was absolutely serious. There’s no nuance among these people. Every gray area is the pitchest black and they’ll insist while standing under a streetlight that the rest of the world is a void and existence is confined to the couple feet around them.
So I can see why he’d censor himself. The woke left is fanatically, insistently stupid.
These people have no logic, no critical thinking skills. They are the equivalent of large toddlers – all emotion, all the time.
Holy shit! If even Sad Beard is starting to get it…..
These people are as bad as the boomer right.
I want them to eat him alive. Is that so much to ask?
The fellow who posted those screencaps makes a sensible appeal: even if he’s coming around to the right conclusions from the wrong angle, shouldn’t we embrace him?
Do we have the luxury of turning away allies in what’s swiftly turning into the ideological clash of our age, liberalism vs. progressivism?
On one hand. No.
On the other hand, it was pointed out to me that we are witnessing two groups of white people that appear to be fighting it out. Presumably on behalf of non-whites that never asked for their input. Its assholes all the way down.
True enough. The best outcome, short of these people coming around on their own, is that their vicious internecine struggle alienates them from an electoral majority. But if we know anything about petty, grievance-driven internet squabbles, it only whets interest.
I think we should at least give half credit. Being willing to question the narrative at all, for any reason, is not common lately.
How about we quarantine everyone with blood group A but if your blood group is O then no restrictions? Science!
a blood-group-specific analysis showed higher risk for A-positive individuals (OR=1.45, 95% CI, 1.20 to 1.75, P=1.48×10-4) and a protective effect for blood group O (OR=0.65, 95% CI, 0.53 to 0.79, P=1.06×10-5).
I belong to the White Man Blood type.
Universal taker, but only can give back to my own blood type.
Actually i just looked it up and it turns out i was completly wrong.
#DemandBloodEquality!
O- here. W00t!
If you ever need a pint of blood….I’ll be over here on the other side of the country.
0+! Yeah baby!
Shit um..I am AB+ where does that leave me?
This study found that people with AB+ were less likely to contract the virus. But the sample size was small.
Am A+. First pro-CV group I have been in yet.
We’re in this together blood-brother.
Is this making anyone pine for the days of Chris Bangle?
G82 M4 Full Frontal Leak! [With Bumper Part For G80 M3 / G82 M4
Another thing we can thank China for providing us. Distinctive branding for luxury goods is very important to the marketplace. BMW has taken note where it wants to take share.
That is fugly. Enough with the gaping car mouthes.
Never liked it when Audi did it, but the market did and everybody copied them.
This makes Lexus seem tasteful.
OT: PISSED OFF! ANGRY! ┃Japanese Slang & Etymology – nice lesson from Misa today. Most of the time her lessons are review for me, but since this is much more slang based I learned some new expressions.
Thanks! I’ve been slacking and I need to get back to the books.
https://www.ktvb.com/article/news/local/hundreds-gather-in-ontario-for-black-lives-matter-protest-march/277-fba83af3-437d-49e0-8563-9ea66a33180f
Hundreds of people turning out for this in Ontario, a city of 11k in a county of 30k? Bullshit bullshit bullshit. That is serious organizing.
I feel like BLM protests in fucking Ontario is the kind of sloppy strategic overreach that costs you the campaign, so to speak. You’re gonna have to do a fuckin’ lot of work to convince me that this is a spontaneous outpouring of grievance.
OT: Sorry for Glibs who have to travel a lot, but oil prices are rising. And with them, oil stocks. As an oil stock (well, stock option) holder, I danced a dance of glee. I sold the recent ones for 2.5x what I paid, after mentally ‘leaving them for dead’. If Florida Man or floridaman or Brett or any other mid-Florida Glib wants to party, let me know. I’m buying.
after mentally ‘leaving them for dead’
Meaning I thought they’d be worthless in a couple weeks.
The Fed has got your back.
They’re really busy buying up those junk bonds.
I’d prefer not to profit off inflation, but I just thought the crash of oil stocks would reverse itself in time. OXY (Occidental Petroleum) which fell by nearly 5/6 of its’ value, didn’t really lose 5/6 of its’ true value. Exxon and Chevron had similar (if not as brutal) crashes. All these companies have massive capital investments and equipment. I thought the stupidity would be over by now, but oh, well.
the stupidity
That’s the problem with bubbles for the past 40 years: there’s so much interference in markets that you can’t separate earnings-driven interest from mere speculation
I’m getting to the point where I might not live long enough for enough cycles of the stupid factor to come and go for me to net any gains.
(Darth Vader voice) Don,,, Don… you have to let the stupidity flow through you! You have to let the stupidity become you.
James Earl Jones was born exactly 40 miles due south of where I sit
40 USD2020 is a fair price, pretty much the long term average.
But I can’t put my money on the notion that the upsides are any more probable than the downsides. I don’t like straddles, mineral rights, or O&G equities, so I’ll be watching from the sidelines.
I like equities: a company can be managed for upside or to avoid downside; with commodities, you’re just along for the ride (unless, of course, you actually have any physical use for the stuff itself).
Fair point – for me, it was a value play. If a commodity company with major assets loses 5/6 of it’s value, probably a good bet they’ll get some of it back soon.
Yeah! That’s why I’m holding my hertz stock… ?
no arguments
I have plenty of friends at Oxy, for example
I regret not buying Ruger. Their stock is skyrocketing. Where do you do your drinking BP?
The Ruger 57 is taking off!
If I’m going out in Orlando, usually Big Daddy’s – Winter Park Rd & Corrine Dr.
I’ve never been there. Let me know when you want to meet up. TPTB have my contact info.
Oh, also Fiddler’s Green in Winter Park – similar area
Pater Dean bought a bunch of Oil Co options when the price dumped. Couple weeks ago he was up 400%.
If Trump survives, it will be because the Democratic Party has chosen to drive off a cliff Thelma and Louise-style with a bunch of communist shitheads:
Point 1: Nice fucking job driving normal people towards brushing off abusive cops, assholes. Even I, as someone who thinks the riots are disgraceful and need to be stopped immediately, can see that a whole lot of cops are behaving like enraged apes in this whole ordeal (when they bother doing anything at all)
Point 2: It doesn’t take a skilled pollster to say that average people do not like riots, ever, for any reason.
The cops are just unprepared for the level of depravity the commies were willing to bring in the contest to see who could be the worst. They were too used to harrasing cancer patients taking MJ, and shooting dogs. But i’m sure they are regrouping and coming up with a strategy to take the Win.
Yup. I made the mistake of watching the Buffalo cops in tacticool gear knock over the 75 year old guy.
After the outrage and initial denial by the BPD the two cops are suspended without pay, but I’ve not read a thing about the 20 other cops who stepped around his bleeding body.
I liked the Guardsman were the only ones there that noticed he was bleeding from his skull.
They don’t want police reformed, they want them converted. They want American police to be more like the UK’s, policing thought crimes and mostly staying out of minority neighborhoods.
I’ve been thinking a bit about the threat of the Minneapolis City Council to disband their police. Honestly, while I think it sucks for the genuinely poor in the city, it could be a net benefit for the communities in the more affluent first ring suburbs. No city police? Fine replace them with Academi, nee Blackwater and stop payments to the central city government. What are they going to do? Send the poli…ooops, sorry! My guess is that, for all their faults, they’d probably give affluent suburban communities better service than they’re getting from the city.
In all this discussion about disbanding the police, I have yet to see someone suggest that maybe too many laws and too much reliance on money from fines has created too much interaction between police and the public, and that’s caused too many opportunities for violence.
SHUT UP, LOGICTARD !
That requires a level of nuance that most aren’t capable.
Well that, and admitting that when X causes a problem the solution isn’t to do more of X.
Care to dumb that down a bit?
This is one reason why i know the left doesn’t want to disband the police. Disbanding the police would mean that all the laws they want to have couldn’t be enforced. When they say Abolish the police, they are saying “Destroy the current system and replace it with one amenable to our ends”.
That’s not to say the whole system doesn’t deserve to be destroyed and replaced. I’m just not gonna add my hand to the vote, when my vote on what to replace it with won’t be counted by the leftists.
I just think they haven’t thought that far ahead. Eventually they’ll realize this will result in less money in the slush fund and fewer people sent to jail for disobeying their ordinances.
They want their own NKVD, basically.
Look at what’s happening to Rand for trying to remove qualified immunity as part of the despicable lynching bill. Note that Sanders isn’t putting his money where his mouth was.
Can i get a link? I just want to read up on that, and tbh don’t want to wade through countless “RAND HATES BLACKS” think pieces to find what he’s trying to do.
“ Rather than consider a good-intentioned but symbolic bill, the Senate could immediately consider addressing qualified immunity and ending police militarization,” Paul said. He sought to offer an amendment to weaken the measure, and Booker blocked it.”
https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Emotions-run-high-as-anti-lynching-bill-stalls-in-15318167.php
Harris is such a piece of shit.
I haven’t read the bill, but my spouse said there was a potential 10-year jail term for SLAPPING, and this was key to Paul’s objections.
Is that what he added in?
Jesus Christ
It’s worse than just negligent thinking, there are arguments that any brief with police unions is cover for dismantling public sector unions altogether, so it must be opposed. If anything, police unions must be strengthened and staffed with The Right People.
Always the “Right People”, with these guys. No wonder collectivism always turns to genocide.
“has created too much interaction between police and the public, and that’s caused too many opportunities for violence”
Bingo
Unless you’re aggressing against someone or their property, you should have a police interaction.
That’s a great part of a solution. I’d add in eliminating civil asset forfeiture, eliminating qualified immunity, and weakening police unions (there are doubtlessly others).
But, none of that is going to happen. Conservatives are too in love with their “tough on crime” image and progressives are way to interested in social posturing about how they’re opposed to racism (but are they also against cancer and puppy kicking? Are they?) and putting digital blackface on their FaceBook accounts to even entertain for a moment that the problem might be their statism falling hardest on the relatively poor and powerless. So, libertarians are left banging our head on our desks or just continuing in our perpetual state of facepalm.
Well, clearly the solution is to take down more flags and statues, and then all will be well.
Look, you’re overcomplicating things. It’s either “Police brutality is a libtard myth/few bad apples/brothers in blue” or “Rioting is a form of protest and only white devils believe otherwise”. You may think you’ve heard some people say they’re against police brutality, are against racism, don’t think all police brutality is racism, think protesting is a right, and think looters should be shot. That was a dream. It’s either pro-nightsticks or anti-racism.
It’s been nearly 10-minutes and no one has jumped on the pro-nightstick comment – so disappointing.
Oops
After the outrage and initial denial by the BPD the two cops are suspended without pay, but I’ve not read a thing about the 20 other cops who stepped around his bleeding body
I saw that this morning. A special award for the cop who prevented one of the original two from leaning down to check on the guy.
By “special award” mean ROPE
Look at what’s happening to Rand for trying to remove qualified immunity as part of the despicable lynching bill. Note that Sanders isn’t putting his money where his mouth was.
Where ARE the “End Qualified Immunity Now!” signs? I guess they must be just out of camera shot.
The problem is systemic racism and white supremacy, not lack of accountability and excessive power.
What is white supremacy? What do they mean by it? I honestly don’t know what this concept means.
(Semi) free country operated by the rule of law.
1 degree less awful than the Ku Klux Klan.
Black people aren’t in charge of everything, and white people aren’t required to kneel and apologize to any black who demands it.
I wish I was making this up.
What is white supremacy?
Well it depends. If it’s to explain to everyone why we should make combating it our highest priority, it’s the Ku Klux Klan burning down churches filled with cute little toddlers. If it’s to pass judgement on people, it’s any belief that contradicts the belief that we’re a hopelessly racist society that can only be redeemed through the total re-ordering of society and the exclusion of white males.
There is no such thing as systemic racism. Institutional racism has been outlawed since the 60s.
That being said, bigotry of all sorts is hardwired in to the human psyche. We automatically put people into groups and let “group identity” represent anyone that we are not directly associated with. Pretty much all of human conflict comes down to us versus them. This will never go away.
The issue today is not racism. It is institutions that protect bad actors from the consequences of bad behavior. The police in particular are protected by:
1) Prosecutorial discretion — the prosecutor’s office cannot function without the full compliance of the police force. When the prosecutors do charge police with crimes, the police uses malicious compliance to punish the prosecutor’s office and the general public.
2) Qualified immunity — the people harmed by the police cannot sue the police that hurt them. People harmed by the police can sue the city or state, but even when those people win in court, the police do not suffer any consequences.
3) Public unions — bad police cannot be fired.
Thus, police rape women in their custody with no punishment; police throw flash bangs into children’s cribs with no punishment; police shoot innocent people in wrong door raids with no punishment; and police use approved tactics to subdue suspects resulting in the death of those suspects with no punishment.
I have little faith that Derek Chauvin will serve time even though is crime is captured on video.
Sorry if it wasn’t clear, was channeling the people pushing this crap. They don’t want to fix the actual problem at all. Just tear down their enemies so they can be kings of the ashes.
oops
I will plead fatigue and multi-tasking
No worries! I’m there myself.
Yeah. He will get to plead QI all the way up to the SCOTUS before anything moves, and chances are that he might get it, because is it really clearly established that kneeling on someones neck until death while handcuffed, is a violation of the constitution?
+1 neu professionalism
Eh, I think Roberts would stomp on him to save the “reputation of the court”. He’s funny that way.
Maybe his intellectual cowardice will result in some good then.
Vagina, vagina, vagina, vagina.
Maude Lebowski?
Doc: I think you are too focused on sex.
Patient: what do you mean? you’re the one showing me all the dirty pictures.
Here’s a fine chap (with a shiny blue check, no less!) advocating the Zimbabwe Option/
The replies are glorious. Who said Twitter is a sewer?
The similar tweets are a study in bugfuck insanity. Also, apparently it’s really great to a lot of people that Kanye West isn’t talking right now.
How does someone with the name and username Noname acquire a blue check mark?
Yeah, I wondered that myself. What, exactly, did they verify?
He’s a horse that carried people through the desert?
Is it the rapper?
Right think or an inside Twitter user
I think the demographics are going to work against him in this country.
1) lactating boob hands
2) a badger with ears where its eyes should be
3) an abstract rendering of the classic Twilight Zone episode Nightmare at 20000 Feet, but with a 737 max8
4) trannies preparing to earfuck somebody laying down, with a butterfly watching and some blood spatter on the wall behind each of them, likely from their pimp bitch slapping them.
I love the sudden adherence to the Constitution, or rather the 3rd Amendment, by the twittosphere. Fuck I hate everyone.
Just like all amendments they gloss over the important bits. I don’t want to see soldiers quartered but stretching it to hotel rooms, in which I am assuming the government is paying for and didnt commandeer, is trying to fit it into your narrative.
Also D.C. is a constitutionally created city and the Feds pretty much have fair game there from what I remember. Maybe I am wrong. I don’t really know anymore.
Actually soldiers aren’t allowed to own homes at all. That’s why we have some many homeless veterans.
I chuckeld sadly
Correction: soldiers of color aren’t. White soldiers get VA loans. Part of the application process requires you to submit a photograph demonstrating that your skin tone is no darker than the paper the loan application is printed on.
*slow clap*
Meanwhile, in Boston…
The MBTA will no longer bus local police to protests
The agency had come under heavy criticism for helping law enforcement at a time when people were protesting police violence.
I’ll say it again. The mob is going to make a big comeback if this keeps up.
Again, it’s like a race to the bottom. Just when I think Trump has clinched the loss, his opposition finds new and exciting ways to look like incompetent, villainous assholes.
After the Republican convention in 2016, I asked Tony what he was worried about. Back then I thought Trump’s nomination all but guaranteed Hillary the office, so who on the left could possibly complain that he’d come out on top? Now I wonder if I wasn’t right after all. Trump has given license for these lunatics to forefront all of their lunatic ideas. Short of actual genocide, there’s no quiet part left that they can’t say out loud. Trump may have been a short-term setback but a long-term victory.
At this point, I really can’t say I’d bat an eye if the police said that any reports of violence toward employees of the MBTA will be dealt with expeditiously. In a few days.
This stupidity….
Yes…think about the repercussions if they were caught tweeting by those right wing administrators.
There’s ample reasons for devout leftists to worry, but not for the reasons they think. I wouldn’t want to share a cab with these psychos, let alone an ideology.
Meal-kit firm HelloFresh cut ties with Michele after Samantha Ware accused her of “traumatic microaggressions” when they worked together on the show.
Really? As a society we need to stop feeding peoples narcissism.
Well, clearly the solution is to take down more flags and statues, and then all will be well.
Sweet, sweet amnesia. Ignorance is bliss.
“Not the hill to die on”
*Looks around and notices we’re running out of hills.
Which will happen first
a) demands that the names of Davis, Lee, and others be removed from history textbooks because they’re triggering?
b) outrage that the achievements of blacks and other POC in the Confederacy aren’t been taught?
Man, (((they))) are truly some crafty mofos!
*golf clap*
Some of those look good, but one seems like it would produce opposite results:
My immediate question was “Did anybody actually ask the residents of those neighborhoods?”
I love mourning doves. Their call is very comforting.
I hate those cooing bastards. They ruin a good Saturday sleep-in.
I don’t remember hearing them in the morning. Just afternoons.
Their wing flutter is very sharp and shrill, however.
Sleep-in? Those bastards (or something, anyway) start chirping at four in the morning. If only Rachel Carson had been right.
Mourning doves don’t chirp. They coo.
But then there are the cheeseburger birds, who do, in fact, chirp early in the morning. (I don’t hear the “cheeseburger,” but my husband does. He called them “cheeseburger birds,” and then I googled it and A LOT of people think they say “cheeseburger.”)
They always driven our various dogs nuts.
Anyone who carried an open firearm at protests is now a boogaloo trying to start a civil war.
https://www.oregonlive.com/nation/2020/06/boogaloo-movement-seeks-second-civil-war-may-be-trying-to-incite-violence-at-protests.html
Having your constitutional rights actually makes you a criminal.
I’ve started wondering what it would take for me to mask up, gun up, and go remove some toxins from society.
Is that bad? Should I not be thinking about this?
Not till your property is on the line.
Way too late at that point.
I don’t think you’re the only one. Just sickening looking at the plywood on buildings this morning. The boarded up 5 Guys has a “Thanks for the support” on the outside. Not sure if it was sincere or snarky.
And this frankly scares the shit out of me with what’s going on. There’s not enough FBI agents inciting idiots in the world to catch the next Timothy Mcveigh. Someone is going to start thinking that and decide to go higher up the food chain than simple looters or government drones.
We need deescalation. I’m not sure to what end, but it needs to happen. I’d like to think the numbskulls will eventually have some buy-in and will want to preserve a peaceful, prosperous society, but given how many are themselves the product of real privilege, not the pretend privilege they use to stoke a race war, I’m not sure that’s possible.
It takes two to de-escalate, even though it only takes one to escalate. So far, the gestures for de-escalation have been seen as weakness, and I suspect this is they are, given how (mentally/morally) weak those making them are.
Maybe you need to escalate some before you de-escalate?
For now, they’ve constrained themselves to the cities. Coming out into the burbs is going to yield a very different reaction.
The time for it does seem to be approaching. Not here yet.
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zooming ?