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A Midweek Reflection
Here at Glib HQ, we tend to spend most of our time being, well, glib.
A bit more than a year ago the Founders expressed a wistful, “Wouldn’t it be great to have our own place?”
I, not having the good sense I was born with, said, “Oh, it’s not hard to put a site together.”
And that’s true.
What is difficult to build is a real community. And thanks to all of you, this has surpassed my wildest expectations. Especially since I had none.
I thought I’d throw a site together, hand it over to the Founders, and go on my way. However, this site has become a place we can all come to express our various levels of exasperation with the state of the world, propose our solutions, snark, laugh, cry when we need to, share our knowledge, get support, offer help, spread our joy, ask for advice, inspire each other, ponder the larger issues, have good faith discussions, and simply feel a bit more linked.
I often say that my new life strategy is to learn not to care about people I know, so I don’t care what happens to them. It isn’t working out so well.
Because, darnit, I am grateful for all the connections I have made among the Founders and the Glibertariat, both online and off. I have been privileged to spend some truly wonderful hours with fellow Glibs.
I’ve also learned quite a bit about quite a lot, and some of it doesn’t even require brain bleach.
So, whether you contribute comments, create content, submit recipes, donate hard-earned cash, or send off-site correspondence, I just want to say thank you.
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Still around: Many young people who are unknown to me; David Boreanaz (48); Janet Jackson (51); Krist Novoselic & Thurman Thomas (both 52); Pierce Brosnan (64); Robert Fripp (72); Danny Trejo (73)
Kicked off: William Seward (1801); H.H. Holmes (1861); Hugh Plaxton (1904); Woody Herman (1913); Ephraim Katzir (1916); Liberace (1919); Yvonne Craig (1937); Ray Condo (1950)
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- I hope all the Glibs and their loved ones in the Northeast/Mid-Atlantic are OK this morning.
- “Let’s cut another bureaucrat” brings a predictable response from politicians.
- What the actual fuck. Completely fail at your job and retire early and handsomely.
- In documents, prosecutors allege that they found a large cache of child pornography on a server. “Good enough to hold him until we
findmanufacture evidence for what we really want to get him for.” TW: WaPo - What is the mission of HHS again?
- Know what causes my mood disorders? Morning. But researchers say it’s really because of this. TW: Will nag about your ad blocker
- MikeS could pick up an easy $5k if he “finds” something that “fell off the back of a truck.”
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568 responses to “Wednesday Morning Gratitude Links”
A wonderful job you have done!
+1
The best!
10%? 5%?
🙂
6%
sorry, the response we were looking for was “8%”, Buttplug’s 8%, thank you for playing and we hope you enjoy your parting gift.
Thanks for making this place. It’s the best.
Better than thechive? Hard to believe
Second. So glad to have Glibs after TOS went to complete shit.
To be fair …
To be sure…
Libertarian moment is upon us.
To Be Certain…….
/and late
I need more caffeine. I thought you said “To Be Curtain”
To be faaaaaaaairrah https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2165Gj5QC0
Agreed!
Yes – my daily refuge from all the other crap.
Also agree. I like that we’re getting more contributions every day, and that this is turning out to be a great place to try your hand at writing something longer.
Here! Here!
hmmm…
or is it Hear, hear?
Hear here?
Google says it’s the 2nd one. Short for hear him, hear him.
Count me in on that. Glibs pretty quickly became my go-to place on the web. And it hasn’t disappointed.
685
Users
Seems a bit low…
That doesn’t count lurkers.
Does that include Tulpa socks?
So….the real number is 1 then?
Mind blown.
The Unitarian Church of Liberty.
1 Church
1 Doctrine
We are all Tulpa and Tulpa is God
Wrong. Some (maybe all) of us are Poppy.
What if Tulpa was a sock of Poppy?
Heretic!
It only includes Tulpa socks.
Imagine if we had a commenter post count. Tulpa would be ∞
“Users” is kind of harsh.
And I can stop anytime I want.
Sure you can….
If the “firsts” were distributed fairly, everyone would have 2.7 of them by now. This inequality cannot be allowed to stand.
I don’t give a shit about firsts. Lame.
Trains leaving metro NYC last night were a disaster. I finally got the yard cleaned up from the one our spring snowstorm and I’m still waiting for a the tree service to trim the trees because of that damage. Last night I got treated to another large downed limb. Fortunately we kept power and internet.
Others not so lucky. I heard on the radio this morning a little girl was killed when a tree fell on the car she was in.
STEVE SMITH TREAT YOU TO LARGE LIMB.
I heard about this from the Glib News Network this morning. She was getting groceries out of her mom’s car…. during a massive storm.
Queue some guy hoping to make his political career demanding these parents be crucified for making their kid go out in a storm..
The limb also broke a bottle of liquor in the car, so this will be counted as a drunk driving fatality.
I hope all the Glibs and their loved ones in the Northeast/Mid-Atlantic are OK this morning. – stay safe and also remember climate change is to blame so get some solar panels and stop driving. Ride a bike instead.
Don’t tell me what to do!
This answer to my ex’s constant haranguing is why I am single and plan to stay that way…
I had a pleasant 2-hour commute home last night. When I left work, the car thermometer read 96. When I hit the storm front, the temperature dropped to 65 in the span of 5 minutes.
That will definitely make for some violence.
Its cool I’m driving a Tesla so all of my emissions are several miles away from me where they can’t affect me or my family… right?
My avatar would leave his ’emissions’ on the sidewalk and immediately pretend he had no idea who did that or how it got there, too.
Which made picking it up hard because he wanted to leave the area immediately.
Looks like they are setting up orphan auction centers… Libertarianism triumphant!
“685 Users”
But who’s the best?
I believe SP has dubbed SugarFree as #1.
OK, then who’s #685?
I hear you are 3425 out of 685 so there is that
YES! Up from 4179!
I call BS. I don’t know what Q’s ranking is, but I am pretty sure it is divisible by 2.
Clearly he is ranked 2d.
It’s pronounced double D.
Nods sagely..
3, 8, 12, 17, 25, 45, 48, 51, 63, 64, 72
Okay, I lol’d at that.
Me too.
While I don’t know about best, I guarantee there are user numbers in the db. I wonder if I am double digits or not?
I look at the user number and my reaction is “Most of those people don’t comment”. I wonder if there’s a breakdown by % of users with single digit comment counts.
“69”
Goddamn it someone is hogging all the calibre licenses. How am I supposed to work here?
Check out the uncanny valleys on these ladies.
http://archive.is/mkOL5
6 plz.
1 3 and 4 seem cute.
27
I was trying to figure out the box of grenades story and this wasn’t making sense thanks to the photo:
It’s not hand grenades as pictured, it’s 40mm rounds either for the M203 or a Mk19.
And the picture is of training grenades, not even “real” ones.
WP article says the ammunition is used with the MK19. I’ll leave it those in the know what exactly those rounds look like.
They look like big bullets.
The look like M203 rounds on a belt – but do NOT try to use them in an M79 / M203. They have far more propellant – will blow up your launcher and break your shoulder.
They look like big FAT bullets. About the size that you would believe could save your azz from a Tyranosaur.
MK19 is combat magic. Fully automatic, belt-fed, 40mm grenade launcher. It was so good the Soviets, once they learned of it, went out and came up with a similar machine. On a tripod or other solid mount it owns the grid square it rests in the center of – “MINE!” with the voice of god.
When we learned about that wonderful machine of death in Infantry school, we were told to keep on shooting even if the enemy was inside the arming range of the grenade. Having about the same muzzle energy as a .50 cal, those babies will administer a god-punch at short range.
Cavalry scouts generally don’t care for the MK19. It doesn’t kill anything that a .50 cal can’t and when you’re shooting at something at or near max range, you’re waiting a significant amount of time (GT 10 seconds) to see if you are putting rounds in the right place.
Ma Deuce is covering that range in a second and a lot more accurately. That amount of time is a lot of exposure from the back of a HMMWV.
but if I were in a dug in position with enemy probing… hell yeah!
My old gun system laughs at the Mk.19. 5000 rounds per minute of 20mm HEIT-SD turns opponents into a lingering red mist.
Accuracy by volume
They’re 40mm. Security Forces doesn’t use anything else stateside. They’re pretty much useless unless fired from a launcher.
This seems a little dramatic:
They have to reach a specific rotational speed after being fired to even arm. I believe that they have to travel 25+ meters after being fired before they’ll even reach the appropriate rotational speed. I suppose somebody could hurt themselves but I can’t imagine how.
Well, it’s North Dakota. Some farm kid could attatch them to the pto on the tractor to see what would happen…
I should know better than to say “I can’t see how…” because someone always finds a way.
We can figure out how to do this!
Hammer? Bench vise? Blowtorch? I’m joking, but I remember how inventive I was as a teenager…
Chem lab centrifuge…
Probably not far off. That rotational safety thing won’t matter if some moron working towards a Darwin Award decides to disassemble a few for fun.
Catastrophe will also ensue if they try to fire them out of a pipe – the propellant is stout enough to toss that grenade over 2 kilometers.
It was in NW NDak. MikeS is from NE NDak.
I’d expect better from someone not from the coast, but then you are from Chicago and I always expect the worst from you guys. Little NYC on Lake Michigan.
How big can North Dakota be? It has fewer people than my neighborhood Starbucks.
Uffda. Are you sure your Chicago Starbucks has “people” in it?
But yeah, NDak is big enough that whoever stole that ordnance can shoot it off with a pretty good chance of never getting caught because no one will be around to hear it.
Guess who’s not getting invited to the Hard Spring Wheat and Durum tour?!
You can fit the city limits of Chicago into NoDak 310 times.
…and you can probably fit the entire population of NoDak into McCormick Place
What the actual fuck. Completely fail at your job and retire early and handsomely. – his job was to walk around school when it was safe. It did not imply risking his life.
“Let’s cut another bureaucrat” brings a predictable response from politicians. – China has a 5 a 10 and a 20 year plan for cyber issues and AI. America is falling behind. Do you want a cyber gap? huh?
Mr. President, we must not allow a
mineshaftcyber gap!”Depends on the gap
http://archive.is/IPpz0
This user name is not that familiar… Are you one of the 685?
Why did we stop calling that ‘factory air’? Bring back the old ways!
Uh…10s sportin’ a…..pretty rockin’ bulge…..
I…uh…..am unaware of such a thing occurring on an otherwise svelte figure…..I can only conclude that that’s a maaaaaaaaaaan, baby.
Still wood.
ehm…
Yeah, I’m short-circuiting on that one.
Waist is too tiny. Looks like photoshop.
Great place you have set up. Thank you all!
‘cut the cyber coordinator role, in a move that many experts criticized as a major step backward for federal cybersecurity policy. ‘
But I bet those same people would have preferred Queen of Cybersecurity, Herself.
What, with a cloth?
Belgian clown ‘murdered’ mother in front of her children after roping in sidekick in alleged revenge plot
Talk about crazy eyes
Was his name Sideshow Bob?
Whew…
I’m more surprised there are people who find clowns entertaining. I have an easier time understanding people who are afraid of them.
I have worked for many a clown in my life…
Trump’s greatest asset is the insanity of his enemies.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/trump-is-going-to-win-in-2020-because-the-media-cant-quit-him
I (maybe) encountered a libertarian in the wild!
I was waiting for the rigging crew to move one of my tools (heroically refraining from shouting “Where mah riggers at!” every few minutes) and when they appeared, one of the hardhats had the red, white, and blue porcupine of the FSP on it. I asked him if he had gone through with moving to New Hampshire, and he didn’t seem to know what I was talking about. Maybe he was afraid of blowing his cover.
There are a surprising amount of libertarians in my area. The guy who sits next to me at work is an objectivist. Theres a car I see on occasion with a gadsden license plate of “txistft” and a porcupine in the back window. TK is just up the road a few miles. A buddy who worked at Cato invited me to libertarian happy hour a few months back, and it wasn’t just the two of us.
Where is this? I may need a place to settle soon…
Lol, the DC suburbs. The number of libertarians is impressive given that it’s DC. In absolute numbers it’s still quite pathetic.
Oh. Nevermind. I’m so sorry.
It’s actually a very nice place if you get far enough out in the suburbs. You definitely see a culture shift halfway between here and the district. Out here it’s gadsden plates, molon labe stickers, and pickup trucks. 10 miles closer to the city its Bernie stickers on priuses.
You’re in VA, right? November ’16 (damn, has it been that long?) I was stunned by the number of stickers and signs I saw for Johnson. There was one house that was damn near festooned in Libertarian stuff on a prominent street corner. Well, I say prominent mainly because it’s on the street that goes from my office at one end and down a couple blocks to the my local watering hole on the other.
Still, in Annapolis, MD, any political stuff that isn’t Team Blue is like finding a four-leafed clover. And yet, I’ve been noticing a fair number of libertarian things lately, and a sharp increase in stuff like NRA stickers.
In MD, if you have anything other than team blue stickers you’re likely to have your car vandalized. My mom still has a BOOOOOSH ’04 sticker on her car, but it got vandalized. Here in VA, you see a good mix like trshmnstr said. I see Gadsden flag license plates pretty regularly, including a few at work.
I’m thinking about getting a Gadsden one myself.
I’m sorry I am confused; what is the connection between Johnson 16 bumper stickers and the presence of libertarians?
what is the connection between Johnson 16 bumper stickers and the presence of libertarians?
Bill Weld, of course.
In the Orlando suburbs, there were 4 Johnson signs in a 2 mile area… until his Aleppo comment.
until his Aleppo comment
Who removes their signs because their guy doesn’t know a city in some shithole country?
Also, who the hell changes who they vote for based on what their team’s politician says/does?
“I think it’s okay to require them to bake the cake”
Sorry to disappoint, but the Texas-Fit guy is a personal trainer from the Lone Star State.
rigging crew to move one of my tools
Now that’s how you do a euphemism!
This place is the best.
I had nothing to do with the grenades, I swear.
That sleep study explains so much about my mental health…
*narrows gaze*
Really, now…
I trust you’ll remain appropriately neutral on this matter.
Naturally.
Oh good. Sooooo…I’m in need of a secure deposit box for…reasons…
*Whistles innocently*
https://www.zkb.ch/en/lg/ew.html
Candidate for worst sentence of the day:
“According to a report in the Williston Herald, Mountrail County Sheriff Ken Halvorson said: “The lack of information being released by the Air Force on this loss and concern for the safety of the citizens in the area that may come into contact with (the ammunition) prompted the release of this information.””
“Pardon me, I speak
Jivebureaucrat.”Sorry, but nobody speaks bureaucrat. It oozes, gushes, or barks. Bureaucrat cannot be merely spoken.
That’s absurd. It can be spoken, and is in fact a highly precise method of verbal obfuscation where the most fluent speakers are able to say absolutely nothing cogent while sounding entirely on-point and inoffensive.
You have just defined “oozing”
Not by any actual definition of the word.
North Korea cancels high-level talks with South Korea
Kim Jong Un’s regime alleges drills between the South Korean and U.S. air forces are a rehearsal for an invasion of the North.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/north-korea-reportedly-cancels-high-level-talks-south-n874396
Starting to think Trump got played. Kim just put him in a tough spot. If Trump doesn’t cut the exercises and Kim withdraws, it’s Trump’s fault. If Trump cuts the exercises and we handicap ourselves in the region during a future crisis, it’s Trump’s fault. Kind of screwed there.
Trump seems to be making the right play: ignoring it as meaningless posturing and proceeding as though nothing has changed. Kim is likely playing to internal issues and doesn’t want to be seen as showing weakness by making it too easy for Trump before making a deal.
I still think there’s a large Chinese influence over all this trying to get us out of the region. If that’s the case then you’re right, this is just bluster.
^^^THIS^^^
In the end this is likely to be instigated by the Chinese whom are now fearful their games in that region using NK as a pawn might be in danger. The problem that Kim has is that he still needs that lucre to keep his 23 million people strong prison state from suffering mass starvation and privation, and turning on him. After all, he would make one heck of a long pig roast…
What’s the downside to cutting the exercises, removing our troops from S Korea, and telling S Korea to handle it themselves if there’s a future crisis?
Couldn’t tell you. I usually get blank stares when I ask the same question.
“Something something BUT THE CHINESES N RUSSIANZZZ”
Norks thinking the odds moved in their direction and maybe they might have a chance to grab S Korea since they did it once.
If we’re not playing the role of World’s policeman, I’m don’t see why this would be America’s problem. Unless if S Korea compensated our military appropriately for our assistance.
If the Norks can have South Korea then China can take Taiwan whenever they want. How much will it cost us to keep Japan out of all this military action happening basically in their back yard – and how Effed up will the world economy be then?
I enjoy having US troops and the occasional aircraft carrier here…..you just don’t want to hang out with any of them. Lots of bars ask for foreigner IDs and won’t let soldiers go in. Always carry your alien registration card. And the soldier hang-outs are the only places here that could *possibly* be considered dangerous are such hotspots.
In all honesty, this is about the only place where I’m cool with US troops being based. The war technically still isn’t over, after all. And although I think the Truman/UN decision to aid the South are not as constitutional as I’d like it to be, we at least did have international support to intervene. The SoKos are certainly happy that the decision was made. *Shrug*
It was a profoundly fucked up war, and 55 million Koreans wouldn’t be living in one of the most developed countries in the world, after being subjugated in abject poverty by Imperial Japan, if we didn’t intervene.
Very rare instance IMO of a horrific war absolutely being a net benefit for freedom and prosperity.
Thanks for your ‘on the ground’ viewpoint Evan. I completely understand and agree that it’s been great for South Koreans. It wasn’t so great for the 1 million+ American civilians who were enslaved against their will to fight for the South Koreans through the draft. Or for the tens of thousands Americans who died fighting there. I think South Korea should still be paying compensation to the families of every single soldier who went over to this day as part of their cost for now living in one of the most developed countries in the world since it was due to these American soldiers.
I’m not a pacifist and am not opposed to intervention by our military. I am firmly oppressed to drafting civilians and our involvement in affairs where we are not appropriately compensated. I think a large proportion of our military could be funded this way, reducing the need for taxes. A lot of countries around the world enjoy our military backing without paying for it, instead spending what should be their military budget on Socialist endeavors.
I agree with you 100% on the draft being….arguably the worst form of slavery imaginable. Fuck. People didn’t get drafted in WWII. If you couldn’t get pissed at Pearl Harbor and actually, literally Hitler….then I’m not sure what to say. People in WWI (Europeans) and WWII (everywhere) where so proud to enlist that they were publicly shamed if they didn’t enlist.
I also agree with us being paid, literally, protection money for being in other countries. I’m not sure exactly how that situation works diplomatically here, but I think that countries allowing (some more willingly than others) us bases and footholds around the world certainly is a form of payment. We might just differ on the price/value of such mobility.
I understand your hang-ups completely and really do largely agree with them. But at least SoKo is completely on board with us, thankful, and way better off than they used to be. It at least was an instance where we actually did good….and I can only off the top of my head think of one other case post 1950 where we did (I think we were right in the First Gulf War, though the aftermath was….well I guess it was like the WWI moment, inevitably leading up to WWII in regards to 2003. So maybe I have to walk that back a bit.) a good thing for humanity in the long run.
Fun fact: South Korea was poorer than the North until 1979 per capita. Granted that the North was getting all sorts of Soviet funding, but it’s insane that my coworkers were born in that insane poverty and within 40 years has become the 11th strongest economy in the world.
Also! God dammit folks. Use the “proper” terms of NoKos and SoKos! Norks and Sorks….sheeeeeesh. The “ork” sound is the most obnoxiously stupid sound in the English language. Just go ahead and say “snorkel” five times fast. It’s the fucking dumbest sounding shit. Your dick will wither and die with that Seussian nonsense! 🙂
Dork.
https://www.nationalww2museum.org/students-teachers/student-resources/research-starters/research-starters-us-military-numbers
11.5 million+ draftees in WWII.
@Swiss
Yeah, you’re right I was speaking out of my ass. My quick google search led me right to your link and it looks like 33% were volunteers and 66% drafted.
I was basing my comments on my grandparents’ accounts of the gung-ho nature of kids eager to go off to war. And I’m sure those drafted in WWII were more willing to go over than people in Vietnam, for example.
But I was speaking out of my ass—I should’ve checked first. I was mostly thinking of the White Flower movement in WWI that was set out on shaming Brits for not going to war.
66% drafted: I can’t name the source/s off the top of my head, but some studies have some pretty good evidence that a lot/some of those drafted would have volunteered but realized they were near the top of the draft list so just took care of their affairs until the draft letter came.
Hmmm…
That kind of sounds like a mercenary force. With some expectations from those host countries on possibly getting something not in our interest for their money.
I believe our presence in SK was necessary for a time, but now the SK military would go through the North like shit through a goose.
I’ve heard it said on many occasions that we’re there now to stop the South from going North, not the other way around.
Evan, I finally read your hip replacement story.
Very well written, the part where you were screaming really got to me.
Thanks, man.
Don’t worry about it—4 years of pain all gone. Gots to lives it ups.
I picked up a titanium hip joint in an Austin “antique” shop for $10. Gave it to a friend to make knife handles.
No, you didn’t. Or at least I hope you fucking didn’t.
Granted, I know that US prices are inflated because of the invisibility of cost, but my implant cost $11,000. If you got one for $10 then several people made very, very bad financial decisions.
I know that titanium is hard as fuck to work with and I can’t imagine your friend has a shop that can deal with it. Lachowsky would know much more than I.
*LIGHTS LACHOWSKY ALERT*
One thing I regret tremendously–I lobbied hard to get to keep my femoral head. I thought it would be bitchin’ as a paper weight, or particularly, as the head of a cane. They absolutely refused. No biological material can leave. Dammit I wanted to bleach/boil it and keep it. It’s mine, fuckers!
I’ve seen some people on imgur who were able to keep theirs. Well, you can’t win ’em all. But I don’t have to be happy about it.
I’d say not Adahn could have botten one for $10 – but not one that was allowed to be implanted for reasons of either already having been implanted and removed, or being a reject. Something that shows up in a random curio shop is unlikely to be certified as medical grade.
One thing I regret tremendously–I lobbied hard to get to keep my femoral head. I thought it would be bitchin’ as a paper weight, or particularly, as the head of a cane. They absolutely refused. No biological material can leave.
Actually, I think they were being too restrictive. Technically, biological material on a removed implant can make it “red bag” waste and/or “biohazardous” for transfer (if its not going to be wasted). But, you can transfer biohazardous material if you follow the rules. And, of course, the hospital path lab can clean it up so its not biohazardous anymore.
If this request made it to my desk, I’d ask path how hard it is to clean up, and offer to do so for a fee. Hell, I may ask our path lab if they could clean one up for me. Sounds pretty cool.
Conventional wisdom sure but Trump doesn’t always accept those rules. I could see him coming out and saying something like since Kim doesn’t want to have talks that will leave us more time to hold even more joint exercises. Along with some belittling comment that North Korea doesn’t have anything worth invading for, and horrifying the sainted talking head foreign hands on CNN.
I’m thinking there might be a few sacks of corn and soybeans waiting quietly at the back door. Both teams gotta play to the hometown folks.
I think it’s the other way around. Kim realized Trump was serious. If he made a move to actually give up his nuke program, his own generals would have fragged him.
Kim’s main reason for wanting nukes is so he can keep using them to blackmail the west and to help China keep that area of the world unable to unite against it. Sure his military is a joke despite its size, but neither he nor his generals are deluded enough to think they will ever be in a place to conquer the South. Besides, Rocketman has some spectacular execution shows he usually resorts to when he needs to remind people who is king, often using anti aircraft guns to off people that piss him off, and that includes his generals.
When in doubt, quintuple down.
This thing is a gold mine of everything wrong with Team Blue currently. The guy spends and article inadvertently proving the point of people he is trying to disprove. Lies by omission, mischaracterization and so much projection that I am surprised he doesn’t have “JVC” tattooed to his forehead.
In the endless search for the magic key that Democrats can use to unlock the hearts of white people who vote Republican, the hot new candidate is “respect.” If only they cast off their snooty liberal elitism and show respect to people who voted for Donald Trump, Democrats can win them over and take back Congress and the White House.
Yes, best not to talk down to people who’s votes you need.
But the mistake is to ignore where the belief in Democratic disrespect actually comes from and to assume that Democrats have it in their power to banish it.
It doesn’t come from the policies advocated by the Democratic Party, and it doesn’t come from the things Democratic politicians say. Where does it come from? An entire industry that’s devoted to convincing white people that liberal elitists look down on them.
It’s more than an industry, actually; it’s an industry, plus a political movement. The right has a gigantic media apparatus that is devoted to convincing people that liberals disrespect them, plus a political party whose leaders all understand that that idea is key to their political project and so join in the chorus at every opportunity.
As opposed to the lefts larger media apparatus that routinely proves the rights media apparatus to be correct in the view that leftists are elitist and look down on and disparage the average, Republican voter.
Let’s take, for instance, Barack Obama. Can you think of another president who spent more time reaching out to the other side and showing respect for them? You might or might not like his policies, but nobody tried harder to be respectful than Obama. And Republican voters had eight years to watch him. Let’s take, as just one example, the speech he gave about race during the 2008 campaign. Here’s one small part:
“Most working- and middle-class white Americans don’t feel that they have been particularly privileged by their race. Their experience is the immigrant experience — as far as they’re concerned, no one’s handed them anything, they’ve built it from scratch. They’ve worked hard all their lives, many times only to see their jobs shipped overseas or their pension dumped after a lifetime of labor.”
That is extremely respectful. But it’s not what Republicans think of when they think of Obama. “I despise Barack Obama. I think primarily because I don’t think he thinks very much of people like me,” one Republican told The Post’s Dan Balz. “One of the places I would agree with the hard-core Trump people, they’re tired of being treated as the enemy by Barack Obama,” he went on. “His comment, the whole thing, it’s been worn out to death, that clinging to God and guns, God and guns and afraid of people who don’t look like them, blah, blah, blah. Just quit talking down to me.”
Never mind “you didn’t build that” and the backhanded comment you quoted. No that is not respectful.
Or how about the “bitter clingers” remarks? And Hillary’s “deplorables”? They really are deluded on the left.
I haven’t figured it out yet – but somehow I want to gin up a t-shirt with the images of a happy face and an AR-15 with the logo “un-bitter clinger”
Make it a smiling Jamie Farr instead.
*strongly narrows gaze*
I guess you’re gonna have to get off my lawn ’cause 1) I would prefer it was an M-14 rather than an AR-whatever and 2) What is a Jamie Farr?
CPL Max Klinger?
He played Max Kilnger on M*A*S*H, complete with rifle.
Klinger, that is…
His character was pretty bitter about being in the army.
Every Bush ever?
No shit, that was probably the worst aspect of GWB. He actually reached out and got things done.
NCLB was really Ted Kennedy’s brain-child.
Hell, I don’t like Bill Clinton but he was nowhere near as condescending and smug as Obama.
“Can you think of another president who spent more time reaching out to the other side”
And every time I had this uncanny sensation that I was being jerked off
The motherfucker had no idea how to reach out.
He was a petulant child.
That was why he was Mr. “Pen and Phone”, because he had no capability to actually herd the cats.
That’s hilarious. Obama’s speech was basically, “Look cracker, you might think that you worked hard and are responsible for the life you’ve built, but the fact is you’re either too dumb to realize or too self-centered to admit that you not only benefited from white privilege but that everything you think you’ve done was actually handed to you by the government in the guise of ‘society’. Oh, and by the way? The reason you’re a classless, Bible-thumping redneck fixated on guns is because you’re pathetic but you’re too stupid to do anything about it.”
Totally respectful. Yeah.
Whoa… that’s exactly what I heard too.
Ah yes, the “clinging to guns and religion” quote. One thing Obama said in 2008, taken out of context and repeated a million times until it was all any Republican voter needed to know about his entire presidency. But if you look at what Obama actually said, you’ll see that it’s different from the way it has been characterized.
Actually the full, in context quote makes it worse, IMO.
Actually the full, in context quote makes it worse, IMO.
Kind of like Pauline Kael’s quote about Nixon voters. Context changes it from “lol clueless liberal” to “Christ, Diane, what an asshole.”
Look of the MSM says it’s out of context that means you are not allowed to use it against them!
I am told that context doesn’t matter — just look at Count Dankula.
Reading the comments on that article make it so meta-meta it’s almost surreal; thousands of posts undermining everything about the article. It’s such a fever swamp of lefty elitism, hate and insanity I marvel at how the author can be so willfully blind.
One decent comment that pretty much sums it up:
“There’s a huge truth evident here for all to see: Clara, below, says, ” In Alabama, 49% of the electorate votes for a teenage girl, mall stalking pervert over a ‘respected’ democrat.” This entire thread is peppered with similar comments. The reason people like Trump or the ‘pervert’ mentioned above by Clara keep winning is because the alternative (electing a democrat) is too horrible to contemplate. THAT is how repulsive the democrat party and their policies have become to the average American. Read any random hundred comments in this thread. It’s like watching a mob of medieval peasants with pitchforks. The hatred is prominent. And oh so repellant. Who wants to elect someone (a democrat) to represent them when they know what we’re seeing here – in this thread – is HOW THEY REALLY FEEL. I know for certain this rabid group of teeth-gnashers is comprised of toxic people with whom I want no association. And that, for all of you who wonder why, is why democrats will continue to lose. (You’ll say, ‘yes, but republicans are just as nasty!’ You’d be wrong. They simply are not.) Read the comments, all 3K+. It’s a gloriously honest snapshot of what today’s Dem voter has become. Repulsive. Poisonous. Intolerant. Snarky. Condescending. Degrading. It’s like being around a narcissistic psychopath hellbent on your PERSONAL destruction. Oh, and I’ll add gaslighting to the list, too. Consider this a much shorter answer than Mr. Waldman’s …..and much more accurate. Spot-on, as they say. And true to form, I know I can expect denigration in response to my comment. If you dems could open your eyes and look at yourselves and see yourselves they way others do, you’d know what to change. I just told you. But everyone here from either side of the aisle knows you’ll continue apace without the slightest deviation from what we are all seeing here. Go on, prove my point. It’s nasty. And you’ve all made it clear that nasty is your preferred choice. Losers.”
It certainly doesn’t help that their instant response to gun violence is to implicate and impugn all gun owners as co-conspirators. It’s astonishing that so many Democrats don’t understand how off-putting that is. It’s on par with Lena Dunham treating abortion as a progressive sacrament.
Anything that keeps Lena from reproducing can’t be all bad.
I should have left it at on par with Lena Dunham.
Wha’s with this mythology about Obama being so classy and respectful and an orator? Do these people like in an alt-reality? Or are they that fucken stupid?
It’s a Democrat team thing – if you listen to, for example, my mother, she will go on and on how smart ‘n’ classy Obama was; unlike that troglodyte Trump.
The same is true of Hillary Clinton. At a town-hall meeting in March 2016, she was talking about how to revitalize communities that had been dependent on coal but had been devastated by a loss of jobs driven mostly by automation and the fracking boom that made natural gas cheaper than coal. Here’s what she said:
“And we’re going to make it clear that we don’t want to forget those people. Those people labored in those mines for generations, losing their health, often losing their lives to turn on our lights and power our factories. Now we’ve got to move away from coal and all the other fossil fuels, but I don’t want to move away from the people who did the best they could to produce energy that we relied on.”
Wow, that’s pretty respectful! It acknowledges the people’s hard work, their sacrifices, their contribution to the rest of the country.
Some deplorables might say “condescending”. And it does not look good in the wake of her stating the desire to put coal miners out of business.
It’s also irrelevant in light of her other comments about the same group. She sucks up when she feels it’s necessary.
Lost in all of this is a discussion of actual principles.
In the world Republicans have constructed, a Democrat who wants to give you health care and a higher wage is disrespectful, while a Republican who opposes those things but engages in a vigorous round of campaign race-baiting is respectful. The person who’s holding you back isn’t the politician who just voted to give a trillion-dollar tax break to the wealthy and corporations, it’s an East Coast college professor who said something condescending on Twitter.
The world you have constructed does not match reality. The gov’t cannot “give” you healthcare and a higher wage. And LOL, wut? Who does the race-baiting, again?
Yeah that quote illustrates three things about the author:
1. He does not understand nor is curious about how the people he’s writing about think about the government.
2. He’s an idiot when it comes to economics, or is being duplicitous, to try to get a good ‘argument’ in (the Dems are just trying to give you free stuff!)
3. He lives in a fake universe where Republicans try to constantly bring up race.
You forget, the most flagrant race-baiting is when you neglect to harp on race. The biggest racists are people who don’t think primarily in terms of race. White voters who prioritize economic concerns over culture may as well be wearing Klan hoods.
Being colorblind is now worse than Hitler.
Thank you SP for setting up this site. I don’t frequently comment, but usually read every article. This place really is the best.
I agree, SP and the Glib orphan masters are truly the best. Well done, you guys rock.
Mich. woman fired for bringing laxative-laced brownies to co-worker’s farewell
Fitting that this happened in Saline, Michigan.
what a shitty thing to do. I know going for the low hanging joke
*narrows gaze*
Maybe she was just tired of everybody being so anal-retentive.
I don’t think all of the facts have dribbled out quite yet.
Time to flush this whole conversation.
I wonder how the secret of the ingredients leaked out?
File under: higher education, denial of reality edition.
https://hotair.com/archives/2018/03/14/professor-points-men-taller-women-average-sjws-storm-angrily/
women are only shorter because parents do not feed them enough as children due to bias and patriarchy
If more women were Dutch then they wouldn’t be so sort. Duh.
Yanny or Laurel?
Which do you hear?
Laurel, all day long.
It’s blue and brown for fuck’s sake.
laurel
“Russians”
He must’ve asked her to make him a sammich.
https://nypost.com/2018/05/15/pga-star-allegedly-attacked-by-wife-after-terrible-round/
Whipped…
She must love shopping…a lot
He’s too old for this shit.
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Boosting School Readiness: Should Preschool Teachers Target Skills or the Whole Child?
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0272775717302509
We find that the widely-used “whole-child” curricula found in most Head Start and pre-K classrooms produced higher classroom process quality than did locally-developed curricula, but failed to improve children’s school readiness. A curriculum focused on building mathematics skills increased both classroom math activities and children’s math achievement relative to the whole-child curricula. Similarly, curricula focused on literacy skills increased literacy achievement relative to whole-child curricula, despite failing to boost measured classroom process quality.
So I was wondering what the whole child thing – new to me – is and google first answer was this:
Public health and education serve the same children, often in the same settings. The WSCC focuses on the child to align the common goals of both sectors. The expanded model integrates the eight components of a coordinated school health (CSH) program with the tenets of a whole child approach to education
Going to the link:
https://www.cdc.gov/healthyschools/wscc/index.htm
I am not convinced. Not saying there is no value to this, but the page does not inspire confidence in me. It seems to buzzwords empty of content. So can anyone tell me if there is any value to this whole child thing? Also what does „boost measured classroom process quality” mean if the children did not really learn the subjects as well as they could?
produced higher classroom process quality than did locally-developed curricula, but failed to improve children’s school readiness.
“It was easy for our teacher’s union members to follow the lesson plan, even if it didn’t actually result in anything being taught”
“No child made other children feel bad by out-performing the others.”
Maybe the best thing would be to skip the pre-K shit all together and just let the kids gambol?
Why rush to make your kid be part of the system? Let them play outside or just do whatever they want. Once you start kindergarten, The Man has his hooks into you. Always trying to tell you that you have to be somewhere at some time. Fuck that noise.
A coworker had to duck out of some meetings yesterday because his kid had a preK graduation ceremony. WTF? I sent him this cartoon. . He was not shamed at all.
My suspicion is that all this preK shit is simply subsidized day care. If day care was free, the enrollment into Head Start and other shit like this would plummet.
Beat me to it. I guess that’s why you’re the Pope.
. If day care was free – what are ya a socialist?
Also dem chinaman kids start math at 6 months old. Do you want other kids to fall behind?
My suspicion is that all this preK shit is simply subsidized day care.
Absolutely true. And also pay teacher salaries and benefits to people watching 4 year olds.
My suspicion is that all this preK shit is simply subsidized day care.
DING! DING! DING! Give this man a cigar!
STEVE SMITH HAVE CIGAR TO GIVE
SOMETIME CIGAR NOT CIGAR!
100% correct. My kid’s daycare is basically a pre-K, but we pay for it. They do a Kindergarten, too, which we’ll probably stick with.
http://theheathledger.blogspot.com/2007/06/high-school-graduate-endures-17th-such.html
How about “Neither. Go outside and play. You’re PREschoolers, for Christ’s sakes.”?
http://theheathledger.blogspot.com/2007/06/high-school-graduate-endures-17th-such.html
Squirrels are putting things in different places.
So the NBA lottery happened. What are the chances of the white guy from Europe going first overall?
Higher than the chances of me watching the draft.
This is basketball, not hockey.
More state of the website info (info may not be accurate, https://www.similarweb.com/website/glibertarians.com#overview)
– “цифра на ножках” is one of our top organic keywords. But this makes sense as we are all Russian operatives.
– also visited sites range from Jezebel to Breitbart. (And they think we’re in a bubble.)
– overlawered generates 20% of website referrals.
I love that “shut the fuck up” is a top 5 organic keyword.
What a juxtaposition.
No love for everydayfeminism?
It was not in the top five on that site’s data.
I can’t believe theroot is not on there. Surely there’s a mistake.
I guess thechive or pornhub gets visited first and doesn’t go into the equation??
They don’t get linked from here, so I don’t think their bots pick up on that behaviour.
realclearscience?
I thought we fucking hated science?
I hate the people who fucking love science, but I am all for the actual application of the scientific method.
Doesn’t realclearscience hate science too?
I’m disappointed that “whatever, Tulpa” or “shut up, Tulpa” isn’t one of our top 5 organic keywords.
It’s because we save it for the ritual greeting of the newest sock.
A great big ol’ Thank You to SP for setting up this site, and the OG Glibs who made it a welcome replacement for that other joint. You the real MVP.
Well, I just flew back from Japan and I am really depressed. Maybe that is because I have to go back to work though.
But are yor arms tired? (I’ll be here all day unless I get a goddamn PERC license)
It’s the sudden lack of geisha, isn’t it?
Everything must feel giant to you now.
EXACTLY!
I can’t stop masturbating while this phenomenon is happening!
“Look at it! It’s HUGE!”
I only wish my wife was here to see it. But she is still spending another 2 weeks back in Japan.
I’d be totally psyched about how huge it will seem to her when she gets back, but the way her eyes squint it is unlikely that she will have the same visual distortion that my round eyes have now.
Dayum. Sorry to have missed you while you were here.
Thank You, SP. This is a groovy place with a funky vibe.
Like 70s porn soundtrack funk?
More like this.
I like this place because I’m an asshole, yet I’ve yet to get booted. Cheers!
straffinrun-san, err straff-san, err inrun-san…
I have a yobisute related question for you. Do you have an issue with recently acquainted people calling you first name + san?
It doesn’t bother me in slightest even when I’m responding back and calling the person Mr. Watanabe. My shortened first name is much easier for Japanese speakers to pronounce than my last name. However, it seems to tweak quite a lot of younger gaijin who view it as disrespectful and an emphasis on their “outsiderness”.
Not at all. It’s not the Bataan death march is it? Some get offended at “gaijin” instead of “gaikokujin”. Not me.
The gaijin and gaikokujin I’m a little more understanding about.
外人 – outsider
外国人 – person from outside the country
But I personally also don’t lose any sleep over the fine distinction.
OTH, I generally don’t literally translate ハーフ (haafu) in English. To me using half in English seems to imply something inferior about one half or the other. I’d usually say something to the effect that Straffinrun’s progeny’s mother is Japanese, for example.
Some of my friends say their kids are “double!”. I received more racist comments living a Hispanic neighborhood in Denver for a year than I have my entire time here.
I like that!
Haafu is widely used in Japanese and it is handy to use, so i do use it.
I’m also not surprised about having more issues in Denver than Japan. Does/did your daughter get any race related issues at school when she was younger?
A bit, but she has a circle of friends that are all Japanese and have known her since she was 3 or 4. She’s just another kid to them. Sometimes a stranger tries to speak English to her. She ghosts them. It’s great.
LOL! That’s awesome.
Is she actually fluent in English?
No. It’s called “mother tongue” for a reason.
A buddy told me about some guy who was just starting to learn Japanese her (in Japan) – when somebody referred to him as “外国人” to which he took offence because he thought they were saying “外黒人”.
How you been Tejicano?
For everyone else 黒人 (kokujin) is black + person. The pronunciation is very similar to the back half of gaikokujin.
I can see why he might have been confused. But, as an old dude, I think I would ask questions first and get offended later if required.
How does it work over in Japan?
I’ve been three times (Tokyo twice and Osaka/Kyoto) but that probably spans a total of maybe a dozen days. Japanese people are IMO much more….I don’t want to say friendly, but much more willing to try out their English. Not as afraid. I’ve had 18 year old 7-11 clerks take me outside and show me directions with broken English and hand signs. Here, I’ve had old people literally shuffle away from me as fast as they could when they saw that I was white. Not because of fear or hatred, but because of embarrassment of not being able to speak English. (It was dark and and older lady came up with a map to ask directions. She literally shrieked and ran away. Awesome.)
I get crazy eyes from babies and kids when I’m at the grocery store almost every time out. It’s just evident that they’ve never seen a white boy before. I’ve had kids (strangers, not students) run for 50 yards to come up to me and my ex (who is Canadian but Dot Indian heritage), point and look at us with wide-eyes, scream “WEIGUKIN!” (Foreigner/Person from another country), stare wide-eyed and then run off as fast as he could. Never felt nasty, and I got used to it really fast, but I always just took it as a symptom of living in the most homogenous country on earth when one isn’t a part of the hegemony.
I get the Foreign Card here, where I’m just not at all expected to understand the etiquette and I’m completely off the hook for any “mistake” I make. It’s playful and when I do things wrong they think it’s cute and when I do things right they are shocked and thrilled. Any display of being able to speak Korean is treated as an incredible novelty, which has actually put me off from learning more. My attempts to speak Korean get treated with uproarious laughter, not because my accent or whatever is off, but that White Boy is speaking Korean to begin with.
I’d love to hear how it works over with you guys–but it’s def different because you guys are….hahahaha….WAY more fluent than I am.
Sorry for long post.
I’ve just been a visitor.
I got the gaijin get out of jail free card more than once, but everyone was quite kind. I’m older so I have high school and younger children simply try to practice English with me. It’s fun to watch what happens when you respond back in Japanese, however.
What I find more funny is that I’ve had entire conversations where I spoke Japanese and the shopkeeper, hotel clerk or whoever spoke only English back to me. I’m not sure if the intention was to be polite and helpful or the fact that a white guy was speaking Japanese simply didn’t compute.
That sounds like Japan 35 years ago. After they started seeing white guys speaking fluent Japanese on TV they got over the thrill. They still aren’t sure what to do with a white guy who speaks native-level Japanese – right in front of them – until they get comfortable with him.
My dad (who is Japanese but born in America) frequently went to Japan for business, usually traveling with some wypipo from the company. He said when he would talk to the white people on a train or something, all the other Japanese people would just stare at him with open mouths, amazed that a Japanese person somehow learned perfect English.
My mom is wypipo, so I’m only half-Japanese, but whenever I go to the local Japanese food store (here in Ohio) the old lady cashiers sometimes try to speak Japanese to me. But on another occasion, a different lady seemed to think I was 100% white, and she was a bit confused at why I was buying all this stuff… She held up the big jug of mirin and said, “you know this is cooking wine, right?”
Hey SP, this place is great, thanks for all of the work that you do, despite whatever Rufus says about it.
This morning in Oppression Olympics Catch-22s –
http://windsorstar.com/news/local-news/transgender-woman-files-human-rights-complaint-against-windsor-spa
Trans ‘woman’ calls spa to book Brazilian wax, owner says sorry, my only staff right now is a Muslim woman, and I’m not forcing her to look at your dick.
All predictable Hell breaks loose.
This is a complicated issue, and I don’t think there is a simple resolution./progs
From cakes to cocks in under 2 years. Sweet.
Sir, you have just won the internet. Have a nice day.
Sir, you have just won the internet. Have a nice day.
Squirrels, but as an aside, with the mysterious absence of Vhyrus, glibs needs a new gun guy. Sounds right up your alley.
I guess I’ll hang around a look for openings then. Good hearing from you. I’ve been super busy with a new job. I need to ping you when I get it sorted out and things settle down.
Submission button at the top of the page. Write one up.
From Tejicano-san’s post up thread – isn’t he in Japan?
I’m not really interested in Airsoft… 😉
Yup. I’m in Japan. But my arsenal in the US could arm my entire Army Reserve unit here with long arm and handgun – pretty much with caliber of choice – including a belt-fed.
What kind of display setup is that? I could do that with a trip to Menards, a sawzall and 30 minutes of time.
Also
Jason, get a new watch brah.
Remember the days when this could have been a possibly funny SNL skit?
SNL was never funny. Like a blind chicken, it occassionally found corn, but people only remember the random accidents. Grab the whole catalog from a previous season and you’ll find unfunny skit after unfunny skit. I have no idea how it managed to stay on the air for decades.
I haven’t watched SNL for a very long time.
The best skit I remember was Eddie Murphy teaching Stevie Wonder how to do a Stevie Wonder impersonation and looking more like Stevie than Stevie.
And how many forgettable skits did you sit through to see that one?
Given that Eddie Murphy was the only reason that show wasn’t cancelled when the original cast left, you had to see an hour of terrible to get 15 minutes of funny and 15 minutes of music.
Should I get in the hot tub?!?!
The solution is to call another spa but JUSTICE MUST BE SERVED!!!
Genghis Khan’s Mongol horde probably had rampant Hepatitis B
Viral DNA recovered from ancient human remains sheds light on HBV’s evolutionary past.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/05/genghis-khans-mongol-horde-probably-had-rampant-hepatitis-b/
That’s…er….surprising.
I always figured diseases were part of the deal.
Unrelated
Report finds cases of STDs reach all-time high in California
https://apnews.com/0499698a89fa4b6c9fdaea2715b82be5/Report-finds-cases-of-STDs-reach-all-time-high-in-California
Something something lack access to clean women something something
Q goes to Art School
Yeahhh…they look like art students, alright
*Perks up, clicks link, sees women actually involved in this, closes window immediately*
Ummmmm….no.
Would not.
“Women are taught they can’t use their sexuality because it’s dirty”
Citation needed.
I see women constantly using their sexuality to gain favors and advantages. It’s part of the natural order.
Has this woman not heard the anthem “Bootylicious?”
indeed.
Western culture is full of mixed messages, but on the whole, it seems like male sexuality (dirty, low, ignoble) is demonized more than female sexuality (innocent, wholesome, healthy).
I see several violations of the hot/crazy line.
Our own Webdominatrix used to do that as public performance. Her art still, ahhh, hangs in quite a few homes.
Pics or it didn’t happen.
A lot of men have tried to come to the class, but Sarah has made them women-only.
I bet they would let Chuck Schumer into the class.
The extra hair would add texture to the work.
It would take him a month to get all the paint from under his underboobs.
I hope all the Glibs and their loved ones in the Northeast/Mid-Atlantic are OK this morning.
We’re slated for storms through the rest of the week. Got lucky on Monday night when that system tore through VA. Some stuff that was bad nw of my location fizzled out before reaching it. I have mixed feeling about that. I like storms, but prefer to avoid property damage. Anyway, I’ll stay prepared to retreat to the bathroom if things get nasty weather-wise.
No need to brag
You mean people want movies to be entertaining and not condescending, plodding agitprop and/or endless rehashes of superhero stories? UNPOSSIBLE.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/from-texas-movies-for-americans-hollywood-left-behind-1526400385
Premier League post-season carnage begins: Allardyce & Moyes out this morning.
When it comes to national cybersecurity, just remember that John Podesta used to give presentations on the topic as an expert.
You must be joking.
https://medium.com/@Crowdpac/a-stand-against-trumpism-a-stand-for-democracy-a45e95a77ed5
https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-news-host-exits-his-company-over-support-for-trump
A Fox News host has been fired from his full-time job for voicing support of the president on Fox News. The company that fired him, a political fundraising firm, announced his firing via a post titled “A Stand Against Trumpism. A Stand for Democracy”.
It’s so weird how all these “stands for democracy” in the UK and the US always center around thwarting the results of a fair and free election and then ostracizing anyone who is supportive of the results of that election. So brave.
A top nonpartisan political crowdfunding site on Tuesday cut ties with its CEO, a Fox News weekend host, and temporarily suspended all fundraising on its platform for Republican candidates.
that sentence is irreconcilable.
You obviously don’t understand that non-partisan means opposing partisan Republicans and supporting the non-partisan Democrats.
You’re good at double think.
I think that several media companies have forgotten what the buzzwords are actually supposed to mean. They just throw “non-partisan” in there because, well, who knows what that word means anyway? It causes people to feel 3+ points better about whatever organization name is next to the word. No one actually know what the word means… right?
SJWednesday: Multiple Processes of Justice For All Edition
Let me take a crack at translating: Penis=guilty. Further evidence not required.
multiple processes of justice
WTF is this? The word salad is strong with this one.
It’s “we’re going to use all sorts of ways to fuck you over”, not just the criminal justice system and its unreasonable desire for evidence.
we give ourselves the space to articulate our own experiences in all their complexity.
And this is the conclusion to their word salad.. what the fu-?
Understand sexual violence is coercive violation of autonomy over body + social power imbalances + multiple justice = space to articulate experiences
I understand that some fields of study have jargon, and a paragraph from a medical journal can seem quite incomprehensible to someone who has not studied in that field extensively.
But that paragraph is just one more example of the word salad that is common in RadFem/SJW circles. At best, it’s a piece of writing that uses 10 times as many words as necessary; at worst, it’s verbose gibberish. I seriously believe that the majority of writing from this movement is just people using big words in an effort to sound intelligent.
I’m gonna go out on a limb here and say this is some of the best pure hockey I’ve ever seen. Some of us have seen the Habs of the 70s, Islanders and Oilers of the 80s (the Oilers were 30 years ahead of their time), and even the Red Wings of the 90s and Penguins under 66 and 87. I single out the teams I think played with finesse (the Islanders were more grit and power but I’ll keep them in) but I have to say, the way the remaining teams skate, pass and shoot – it’s off the frickin charts. Stamkos’ goal was obscene last night.
Whats a Habs?
google says Montreal Canadiens. Silly nickname
Les Habitants.
It’s an iconic nickname on the North American pro sports landscape.
Nope, your wrong, it has something to do with hockey.
Totally agree. While it’s always fun to say ‘things were better back in the day’, in this case it would be utter horseshit. The speed and skill of these dudes is so much better than anything we watched back then. Great tournament so far.
lol. I watch some hockey clips on youtube from back then. The intensity and passion was perhaps arguably more elevated but like you said, they just didn’t have this kind of wickedness. I don’t want to short-change them either though, Lafleur, Orr, Phil Esposito, Bobby Hull etc. were as exciting as they come in any era and later guys like Messier, Coffey and Bourque and of course Gretzky. We had Pavel Bure and Steve Yzerman too. There were heavy shooters too from the back end like McInnis and Iafrate for example.
But it just so much higher the skill set now. Conor McDavid has an explosive gear I’ve never seen.
The game’s flat out better. If the guys then had the money and training advantages of the dudes today, it probably would be a similar story. The international pool of players is also a boon to the modern game. Ovi is one of my favorite players ever, and we would have only seen him in the Olympics (if at all).
Ovi is awesome.
It used to be each team had one or two skill lines, and at least one “grinder” line that did a lot of checking. Now the whole team is fast.
True. There were two classic checking lines.
And then there were the Broadstreet Bullies.
I guess we’ll never see those types of teams again – including the Pistons and Raiders.
The goon is all but extinct, as is the traditional low-skill 4th line of fighters and grinders.
I usually don’t tune in to the playoffs once my team is out. This year they were never in. But I’ve watched some and it really has been great. I like the direction the NHL has gone.
Me, too. But it’s time to clean up the goddamn cross checking, especially from behind.
Yeh. It’s better. But if there has been one irritant, the officiating has been terrible.
In the Jets-Preds series in one of the games, the ref bought one of Subban’s dives. Come on man.
Isn’t the officiating terrible in every sport ever? I thought that was part of the fun – you always complain about the officiating, and then think about (but not act on) murdering the official after the game.
“and then think about (but not act on) murdering the official”
Unless you’re a Central American soccer fan. Then you act on it.
I’m seeing the same thing in sled hockey. I know someone who was on the gold medal team in Salt Lake City in 2002. That was a much more physical team. They had fights. This year’s team was just pure speed and skill.
SJWednesday: 3 Ways To Decolonize Your Nonprofit Edition
Sounds kinky…
darn…
Obama made being a community organizer seem like one of the most meaningful jobs in the world – not very bright this one
live out my Black queer feminist values – might think of doing something productive instead
It’s pretty sickening when you think of it.
Live out your white straight male values and you’re Hitler!
*shrug*
inspired by former Pres. Barack Obama, whose life story introduced me to the term “community organizer.”
I still don’t know what a “community organizer” is. I assume it is a person that agitates for Marxism.
Despite warnings of notoriously low nonprofit salaries, I entered this field for a chance to live out my Black queer feminist values.
Earning no money while serving as a public nuisance?
Seems like a self-correcting problem.
I would NOT decolonize the author’s non-profit.
politicized by gender studies courses
When your products start straight-up saying that the curriculum politicized them, it gets harder and harder to act like these courses are anything other than indoctrination.
STEVE SMITH AM EXPERT AT DECOLONIZING.
NOT SURE HOW YOU GOT THREE WAYS TO GET THERE.
UNLESS YOU MAKE NEW HOLE.
THEN THERE LOT MORE THAN THREE WAYS.
University’s Hate Crime And ‘Bias’ Allegations Plummet After 400 Security Cameras Installed
http://dailycaller.com/2018/05/14/massachusetts-university-security-cameras
Needs an implicit bias lens installed to capture the real hate crimes.
“The cameras have certainly augmented our existing security on campus,” Westfield State spokeswoman Tricia Oliver told The Fix. “Plus, an increase in diversity and inclusivity educational programming has taken place over the last several months, led by the areas of Academic Affairs and Student Life
Keep telling yourself that while riding your unicorn in the sky.
“programming”
Interesting word choice there.
No imperialistic flags at World Cup:
Police have warned England fans not to display the flag of St George at the World Cup in Russia next month because it risks being seen as “imperialistic” and “antagonistic”.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/st-george-flags-too-imperialistic-for-world-cup-say-police-rz72mm338
Sod off, swampy.
The cops will accept it if you remove all the red.
Is Poland in the World Cup?
lol.
I hope everyone loses at the WC.
The World Cup is being held in Russia and they’re worrying about the flags of other countries looking “imperialistic”. FIFA must not read the news in between all those bribes
To be fair, Cross of St George has been considered a racist symbol in England for decades, so cops are just sticking with received wisdom.
No, I’m serious. For a while only actual racists would display it, because everyone else was told only racists do it. It’s been changing in the past ten years or so, with predictable shrieks from the Usual Suspects.
The Red Dragon and the Cross of St Andrew are A-OK, of course.
Still think it’s ironic that the World Cup is in *RUSSIA* that has been invading countries under vague patriotic justifications and FIFA’s biggest concern is flags. Maybe their biggest concern should be that they keep handed World Cups to corrupt governments.
Corrupt governments pay bigger bribes.
The article (what I could see before it demanded I subscribe) says it’s the cops in UK who are demanding it.
And before you scoff at the notion of “football policing”, remember, they might be pretty tame now by comparison, but in the olden days, football hooligans were basically part-time violent gangsters.
FIFA’s biggest concerns, as ever, are corruption for its members and sale of TV rights to Western Europe, both of which (especially the first one) can be reasonably handled in Russia.
I’m looking forward to the next ENB piece at TOS: “How Israel is Antisemitic”
Obviously a joke. She wouldn’t know where Israel was on a map unless they passed some law about abortions
She wrote a rambling article on the ‘IDW’. It was too big for her.
She kicked the shit out of that straw man, though. I’ll give her that. She’s really good at taking imagined arguments that she’s read in Vox and then regurgitating it and making it somehow more stupid. She’s a treasure
Welch and Hinkle (though he took another route) did it too.
I wasn’t impressed.
Welch is woke af
Which has been disappointing. I truly thought Welch was better than that.
“She wouldn’t know where Israel was on a map unless they passed some law about abortions”
That’s not fair. She’d notice it if they passed a law about prostitution too.
Fair point
Rocket Man is skittish
North Korea will reconsider the anticipated summit between President Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un if Washington continues to insist that Pyongyang give up its nuclear weapons, a top regime official said Tuesday night…
“The U.S. is trumpeting as if it would offer economic compensation and benefit in case we abandon nuke [weapons],” Kim said in a statement released though North Korea’s state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA). “But we have never had any expectation of U.S. support in carrying out our economic construction and will not at all make such a deal in [the] future, too.”
If the Trump administration “corners us and unilaterally demands we give up nuclear weapons we will no longer have an interest in talks and will have to reconsider whether we will accept the upcoming DPRK-US summit,” Kim added…
In announcing the cancellation of talks with Seoul, KCNA also indicated that going forward with the military exercises could put the presidential summit in jeopardy.
“The United States will also have to undertake careful deliberations about the fate of the planned North Korea-U.S. summit in light of this provocative military ruckus jointly conducted with the South Korean authorities,” the KCNA report stated, adding “We will keep a keen eye on the future attitudes of the US and South Korean authorities.”
Leave it to Kim to inadvertently come up with a decent band name.
I definitely heard a ruckus.
Can you describe the ruckus, sir?
Here is a picture.
I’d be skittish too. I ‘member what happened in Libya and I’m pretty sure that madman in North Korea ‘members too.
“We came, we saw, he died (after surrendering all his weapons to us a couple of years before we overthrew him)”
– Hillary Clinton, the most qualified candidate ever in the history of all time ever, from the present, past, and future- the most qualified ever
Hildebeast’s actions re: Libya hurt American peacemaking efforts more than anything else that’s happened in a century. Yes Gaddafi was a dictator that treated his own people pretty shitty. HOWEVER, he disarmed and became relatively Ameri-friendly for that part of the world. And we thanked him by toppling his government and getting him killed. All other dictators took notice and said “fuck that, I’m not letting that happen to me.”
Don’t forget that he was ass raped with objects before meeting his ignoble end.
Eh, this strikes me a typical North Korean tactics. Signal progress, back off, signal progress, back off. All in an attempt to get more concessions.
Isn’t that Trump’s usual tactic as well?
Pretty much
http://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/article211206679.html
Oh hey, those striking teachers in NC can’t do math. Let’s give them more money!
The dumbest people I knew in college were all education majors…. without fail.
The sluttiest women too.
In before “Not all teachers”…. I know, not all teachers. It is still a noble profession. If I’m fortunate enough to retire early, I would like to go back to my high school and teach part time and coach track. But education has become an easy “fall back” major for a lot of people in college. So the net result is a lot of “qualified” (at least int he eyes of the State) applicants, and absolutely no merit based system to sort out the good from the bad.
The dumbest people I ever met were in college (undergrad- not graduate school). Period. The talking point from teachers that they have bachelor’s degrees and make less than a plumber really irritates me. I’ve met a few plumbers that I’d rather have teach my children than a lot of teachers.
In terms of stupidity, education majors were slightly smarter than communications majors.
But, FWM is right, education was the place to troll for trim. 90% female, not particularly bright and DTF.
Psychology majors were always the hot girls at my college. Multiple choice exams really draw in the hot girls
Jinx.
Also had good luck with psychology. Most of them were dangerously close to being DQ’ed on the hot/crazy ratio though.
Kinkiest girl I ever hooked up with majored in Addiction Studies. She was a freak.
Mine was an English major and former state champion gymnast (use your imagination). She is now a RABID SJW and married to a stereotypical soy boy. Glad I did not let my southern brain talk me into making a longer term commitment to her.
Puerto Rican Catholic girl named Reina
I survived with all parts intact.
English.
One of the nice things about growing up where I did was that there were a lot of self-made people in the trades. They’d start out working for someone else, then they’d go out on their own. Within a decade, they’re living on the same street as the doctors and dentists, sending their 3-5 kids to the same local Catholic schools. I’d say only half the people at my country club hold college degrees. Maybe even less than half. They’re good people.
Going through the kid’s high school theater and music programs, most of the seniors have “future plans” listed. Half the girls are going into education. Most are vague, one specifically said “secondary school mathematics”. I think only one boy had education down, and it was specifically “music education” which will probably require a modicum of skills to be attained first.
Fun! Now let’s look at the outlay for his bennies.
Question asked: What kind of man takes his wife’s last name?
https://jezebel.com/what-kind-of-man-takes-his-wifes-last-name-1826041443
Answer: A beta cuck.
Obama made being a community organizer seem like one of the most meaningful jobs in the world.
Wrong.
When you compare it to his job as president?
Maybe… a strong argument could be made.
Big changes happening in my Marine Corps.
https://www.stripes.com/news/marine-corps-announces-sweeping-changes-to-ground-combat-forces-1.527061
Fire-teams downsized from 3 to 4
Squads from 13 to 12
M27 replacing the M16s and M4s
Probably all for the better. I liked the M16 on the range, but did not trust it in the field.
Kind of ironic that they’re basically coming around full circle to a modified AR-18; the rifle that (for some reason) was rejected by every major army.
FWIW, I’ve always thought the piston system was better than direct impingement.
Me too. What will recruits do when not scrubbing carbon out of their M16s for hours?
The AR-18 was Stoner’s attempt at a battlefield rifle for actual soldiers, not a survival rifle for pilots like the original AR-15. The AR-18 system was copied by many gun designers – including HK.
Seriously – they don’t have to starch and press their uniforms anymore, nor shine their boots, now this. The fuck are they doing all day now?
Probably just wasting time learning about tactics, fieldcraft, and that kind of nonsense.
Yeah, right… Not in a world where so many rocks and trash cans need repainting and weeds need pulling.
I thought those were Jobs Americans wouldn’t do.
You realize that the AR-18 and SPAS were the weapons used by the Terminator?
I still like that lever-action shotgun (whatever it was called) from Terminator 2.
Winchester 1887
M27 Infantry Automatic Rifle with suppressors and improved optics
Which is it? Automatic, or suppressors, because you have to choose just one.
What makes you think that?
Because automatic fire means an almost immediately burnt out suppressor.
I’m pretty sure that they solved that problem and it’s in the category of “automatic fire means a melted barrel” Something that can happen but can be avoided.
Only if your suppressor isn’t designed for sustained fire. It’s really just an engineering issue. You’ll pay a price in materials costs (i.e., titanium or nickel alloy vs stainless) and weight.
RE: 685 commenters.
Glibs who mysteriously disappeared:
#6
Vhyrus
John Titor
What happened?
Papaya SF?
They will be missed.
Titor might have traveled back through time. I think he’s on Steam, though.
Is the catholic still counted I wonder?
He announced he was leaving; the ones above just vanished without warning.
Whatever happened to Swiss? I haven’t seen his links in ages.
I guess that’s why people start posting their own links right away.
I’ve missed Vhyrus’ firearm Fridays.
Did (IIRC) Hamster of Doom ever make it over here? She (again, IIRC) was a working chef and always added value to the commentary.
She contributed some articles early on under her real name, then left to do her own thing. I hope she’s achieved what she was looking for.
Groovus disappeared about a year or so ago.
I’m hoping Vhyrus is just buried under a pile of lady-friends and can’t get out until he satisfies them all. God speed, Vhyrus.
Titor is probably just waiting for us to catch up to him in the future, maybe?
Regional golf updates (upset watch) that no one cares about (day 3 of 3 has started except on west coast):
College Station Regional: #23 Kentucky is 10 shots off the cut, looks like #34 Ole Miss will get in instead with a 10 shot cushion.
Norman Regional: #22 FSU is 4 shots out, #15 Arkansas is 8 out. #33 Pepperdine has an 8 shot cushion, #39 BYU a 4 shot cushion.
Kissimmee Regional: #29 Kent St is 2 shots out, and #20 USF is 4 shots out. Unranked UCF is challenging UF for the regional title and has a 15 shot cushion. #44 Colorado St has 3 shots to play with.
Raleigh Regional: #9 Cal has crashed and burned, 18 shots out. #21 Arizona St is 3 out. #36 NC St and #40 Liberty have a 5 and 3 shot cushion respectively.
Columbus Regional: OSU is oddly missing. #25 Wake Forest is 8 shots out, #35 Northwestern has 10 shots to play with.
Pacific Regional (why is not the Stockton Regional?): Upset central — Unseeded Iowa St is tied for the lead, #43 Kansas is 1 shot behind them with a 10 shot cushion, and #31 TCU is up 3 shots. #30 Oregon is 3 out, #6 LSU is 7 out, and #19 USC is 10 out.
Looks like, in general, the Pac 12 is overrated. They are struggling as a whole.
I thought it was the Stockton Regional. That’s what my alma mater (UNC-Greensboro, playing in that regional) is calling it.
We’re tied with LSU for 8th, 7 shots back of 5th, which is what’s needed to qualify for the NCAA Tournament.
On http://results.golfstat.com it is called the Pacific Regional for some reason.
Hey, I care! Go Iowa State!
So diversity. Much tolerant.
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/05/16/british-teenager-wept-forced-marriage-older-man-impregnated-13/
Publishing this story in the UK would be an obvious hate-crime.
And, since you landed me on Breitbart… The Irish have joined the party and gone full-retard on importing
terroristsrefugees.Homeowners in Ireland have been asked to pledge spare rooms or vacant properties to house migrants for periods of up to a year as part of the government’s Irish Refugee Protection Programme
Are these refugees fleeing from the rape gangs of England? Because that’s the only country from which Ireland should be taking refugees. Anyone from further afield should get nowhere near the Emerald Isle before being told “Stop, you’re in a safe zone, look for your chance to go home now.”
I wonder if she would house a down-on-their-luck Trump supporter.
Who’s footing the bill? All the articles seem to indicate that this woman stopped working, but not that she ever returned to work.
Yes, if other people are taking care of your needs, you are lucky. Now fuck off.
Very late to the party, but thanks to SP for this post and for the site. It’s good to take stock of how far we have come. Well-done, everyone.
V for Vagina!
Pennsylvania Democrats took a major step toward upending the state’s all-male, Republican-dominated congressional delegation Tuesday, nominating competitive candidates, including women intent on breaking barriers two years after the state rejected Hillary Clinton.
In a state crucial to their shot at House and Senate majorities, Democrats turned out in high numbers to settle crowded primaries. They put themselves in position to gain as many as a half-dozen House seats in November and are all but assured of sending at least three women to Congress.
If there really was a time when large numbers of people said, “I could never ever vote for a woman,” that was dumb. But this imbecilic harping about NEEDZ MOAR WIMMINZ! drives me bananas. Maxine Waters is incompetent in every imagineable way, but I’m supposed to be glad she’s in Congress because she’s ostensibly a woman? Fuck that. Hillary Clinton? No thanks. Kamala Harris? Kirsten Gillibrand?
Send us somebody who’s not stupid/crazy/socialist, for a change.
Dan MacLaughlin
takes Kristen Gillibrand behind the woodshedgently sets Kristen Gillibrand’s record straight.Identity and superficial physical characteristics uber alles.
Principles and character are meaningless.
superficial physical characteristics uber alles.
Is this not the point of most of your links?
Cause they are super.
They’ve been running with the “WOMEN WON” on all of the major media outlets this morning. NPR, ABC, CBS, etc…
It’s almost like they had been fed talking points on it. Almost….
Speaking of Pennsylvania, it’s amusing to see noted phony John Fetterman is their LtGov nominee. Fetterman, of course, was the target of one of the few times Nick Gillespie ever made a decent joke when they were both on Bill Maher years ago:
Fetterman: Look, I’m the mayor of the poorest city in Pennsylvania….
Gillespie: You must be very proud.
I found it interesting that the Dems actually kicked out the incumbent LtGov.
Yeah, he lost the support of Gov. Wolf because he wasted some pocket change on personal expenses and mistreated his state police security force (not to extent, however, that Hillary dissed her Secret Service detail). Interesting that big spender Wolf and the Dems, who back every new tax proposal that comes down the Pa. Turnpike, would remove a guy for buying a few leather cuff link boxes on the taxpayers’ dime.
“women intent on breaking barriers two years after the state rejected Hillary Clinton.”
Sorry. I don’t get it. What is the tenuous, proposed connection between “women” and “Hillary Clinton”?
https://tomwoods.com/ep-1157-baby-alfie-a-guide-for-libertarians/
Tom Woods with more alt-right propaganda. Why must he question the state? It’s not woketarian to question the state
Thanks for the reminder. Totally forgot about that one today and actually really wanted to hear it. Yesterday’s with Deist was a good one, too.
You want to get more women on board with libertarian ideas? Just keep bringing this up.
The state will not allow you to make decisions for your own family.
Have some WHO, just for fun.
Why, are they going to tell me five units of alcohol a week signals dependency?
OK, OK. I guess I can up it to six or more units if I have to.
Tommy was the only broadway type show I ever went too. It was pretty cool.
they don’t have to starch and press their uniforms anymore, nor shine their boots, now this. The fuck are they doing all day now?
Sensitivity training.
Kim Kardashian sucks, for lots of money.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-5734115/Kim-Kardashian-seductively-sucks-sweet-treat-plugs-appetite-suppressant-lollipops.html
Why am I reminded of the most unfortunately named product of the 1980s?
AYDS!!! https://youtu.be/MxJDobrrOYA
That commercial is only mild 80’s.
“Michelle Rodriguez displays epic sideboob”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-5735325/Michelle-Rodriguez-displays-epic-sideboob-Grisogono-party-Antibes.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-5734567/Christie-Brinkley-ravishes-ruby-red-gown-sexy-thigh-high-slit-NYC-film-screening.html
That’s an impressive 64.
Um. Damn.
Nice
Totally unexpected
You don’t know the names of the thousands of inner city men and women gunned down in Chicago because the media only seems to care about the death of black men when the person doing the killing is wearing a blue uniform.
Michael Brown. Terence Crutcher. Philando Castile. Alton Sterling. Tamir Rice. Americans know those names. They should.
But Americans know none of the thousands of innocent young black men and women killed by other black men in our nation’s third largest city—and across America. There’s a reason. A young black male’s life is not worth reporting when it is taken by another black male. That’s the real racism that prevails in America’s newsrooms. The marginalization of black urban life.
And there’s a reason you don’t know the names of all of those black victims: because the media doesn’t much like the narrative. Journalists and activists can’t blame the deaths on assault style weapons like the AR-15. Or the National Rifle Association.
It is handguns that are the weapon of choice in most of these shootings, and Chicago already has some very strict gun control laws.
You don’t know the names because the problems seem so intractable in Chicago. Poor schools, poor employment opportunities, and poor choices led by a poverty of options are just some of the problems.
And last, far too many journalists aren’t interested in getting at a primary cause of much of the senseless gun violence in America: fatherlessness.
That’s right. Fatherlessness.
From Newsweek, no less.
Welp, looks like someone is gonna be looking for a job soon.
I’m pretty shocked that Newsweek published that. They’re normally pathetic.
So apostate. Much fired.
Lee Habeeb can’t be a real name. Has to be a pseudonym.
OMM real name?
*Sends complaint to HR about CnS’s blatant Islamophobia*
/OMM
*places report unread in file with thousands of previous such reports from the same source*
You’re gonna wish jihad done something else with those files when I’m done with you.
/OMM
Procedures were followed. Complaints will be reviewed in the order recieved. Each review must be thorough and exhaustive. There will be a slight delay due to the requisite completeness of review. We appreciate your patience.
*stamps boilerplate signature*
And there’s a reason you don’t know the names of all of those black victims: because the media doesn’t much like the narrative.
While this may be true, I’d argue that the main motivation has to due with irregularity vs. common occurance. We don’t report on middle easterners blowing themselves and their neighbors up either, because it happens all the time.
If they put Chicago murders on the front page every time they happened, all we would be reading about is Chicago murders 24/7/365. It gets boring. It’s not the media’s fault that black people killing black people in cities is boring — the residents of the cities made it boring.
https://twitter.com/SUEHULK/status/995329543048228864
Best Wishes!
“Let’s cut another bureaucrat” brings a predictable response from politicians.
But he’s not just an advisor. He’s a CYBER-ADVISOR! Everything is better when you cyberize it! We need more cyborgs in the government!
We need more cyborgs in the government!
+ 1 Bernard.
Isn’t Bernard an android, not a cyborg?
Important distinction – robots and androids are fully mechanical, and cannot be trusted. Cyborgs are part-organic and potential allies in the struggle against mechanical menace.
FIFY
In Season 1, Ford said something about how he liked the older models better (which I believe were fully mechanical android/robot). The newer models may be part-organic. They sure like like they have an outer layer of meat on them, at least.
https://twitter.com/WeWuzBoomers/status/995733938919428097
What?
Lol
https://twitter.com/DamonLinker/status/996701797803810817
Christ, what an asshole.
“So 9/11 was a battle?”
At least he got roasted in the comments.
I’m Brooksing this because I think it deserves its own post. Sue me.
“You don’t know the names because the problems seem so intractable in Chicago[…]primary cause of much of the senseless gun violence in America: fatherlessness”
I literally cannot believe such a thing was printed in Newsweek. There’s a reason why the left won’t engage with this, despite mountains of evidence of its truth; it strikes at the core of leftist social and fiscal policy. Whatever you think of it, the sexual revolution and permissive divorce kickstarted this trend. Since sexual satisfaction, variety and excitement have become the summum bonum of modern life, intact families seem incredibly stifling. Couple this with the welfare state incentivizing out-of-wedlock children, unemployment, divorce and other social pathologies, you have just about the perfect poverty trap. However, unlimited sexual fulfillment and cradle-to-grave welfare are two of the left’s biggest hobby horses so it can’t possibly be addressed in any serious way. Better to throw more money at shitty schools and blame guns and drugs.
Fatherlessness is not only a problem in poor communities, it’s just that middle and upper classes have the resources to (partially) ameliorate the fallout, whereas the problem itself perpetuates poverty in already poor communities. Furthermore, who do poor people disproportionately vote for? Dems. Therefore it’s in their best interest to keep poor people in poverty and create as much new poverty as possible. They have no interest in solving this “problem” because they don’t see it as a problem.
As a nominal libertarian, I don’t care what people do as long as it doesn’t violate the NAP. However, if I were to make a few gentle suggestions to not have a shitty life they would be: get married before you have kids, stay married, get a job, don’t lose the job, work hard, save more than you spend. If you follow that, you, and your kids, are probably not going to be permanent residents of the ghetto. Bourgeois values are the new punk rock.
Saving more than you spend is pretty fucking hard, life hits you square in the face and poof! savings Gone……
/Never give up, never give in,
Saving more than you spend is a discipline. Self discipline is passe these days. Add in government policy that values consumption over savings, and you have a recipe for failure.
I will be absolutely livid if the economy / dollar falls apart and my savings are for shit because all these nimrods spent like there was no tomorrow and the government keeps throwing more money at them.
Diversify. Buy land and other non-liquid assets. At least that way you’ll hold on some of your value if (when?) the dollar collapses.
Always a good excuse to buy more guns & ammo.
This is difficult as pretty much all my savings is stuck in 401k.
I am certainly no expert -hell, I’m not even a layman- but I think you could transfer it (penalty free) out of the 401K and into a retirement vehicle of some kind that allows land investment. If not, I know for certain there are some 401K’s -maybe it’s IRA’s- that allow physical gold and silver coins to be counted in the investment.
No idea how to go about any of that, but it would be worth talking to a financial advisor about options if you are serious about diversifying.
This^. I’ll not pretend to be anybody but who I am. I’m a socon who thinks that he has no business compelling his views by gunpoint. There’s a reason that traditional family values work, and there’s a reason that the culture has started unraveling as we’ve abandoned those values.
Any and all subsidy of nontraditional living arrangements (from subsidized schooling to additional welfare for single parents) is an abomination, because it counteracts the natural incentives that grew healthy familial and community bonds in the past. Government was pissed that they weren’t in the loop, so they sat on the traditional family and traditional community until they suffocated.
/stops rant before it starts
” I’m a socon who thinks that he has no business compelling his views by gunpoint.”
I’m about the same. Did you listen to the Cato Daily Podcast today? They had on some smuck bitching about the Sequence of Success, saying it was unreasonable. He said something along the lines of how he could never ask a young woman to not have a baby before getting married. Sex, after all, is a natural desire and besides, there are so few young men worth marrying.
I doubt this dumb mother fucker would say the same thing to his own daughter. He also completely missed the dynamic that if women held back sex *until* those young men made themselves worth marrying, there’s be a lot more men worth marrying, too.
I’m a pretty hardcore libertarian who happens to live a life that’s essentially the socon dream.
Personal freedom requires personal responsibility. Otherwise you’re just an asshole.
That’s why I’m broke, I owe No one
My father told me that if you really, really needed something badly, you would be willing to save and pay for it in cash. If you were not willing to go through the trouble to do that saving, then you really didn’t need whatever it was that bad.
My only outstanding debt is my mortgage, and that is because of the tax deduction I get from that right now. I have enough invested and continue to do so to make sure I will keep living high on the hog and debt free whenever I decide the rat race got old.
I know quite a few people that have told me they feel it is unfair that I am that prepared/financially well off. One of them is a neighbor that amongst other things leases a new Beamer or other such expensive luxury car so he can show off every 2 years, and I can tell that he can’t afford it but keeps doing it, and he regularly makes fun of the fact I don’t shell out huge cash for a tool that’s only real purpose is to get me from point A to point B without breaking down, costing me a fortune in gas, or is not road safe.
I’m gonna throw a friggin party when we pay off both of the cars this year
2 really bad decisions in the midst of even worse decisions. It’ll be nice to not have $1k in car payments as of next December.
I should really write an article about how not to do things, because we dug ourselves into a big-ass hole.
first 20 years of my marriage (when the kids where still around) — how to live on 110% of your paycheck.
I’m pretty much where you are, Alex. I owe on the mortgage and nothing else. I could probably pay off the mortgage if I really wanted to, but it would mean blowing up some other ongoing financial planning. Plus, the interest is so freakin’ low its just irresistible/not stupid to arbitrage the money into some other investment.
I’ve gotten to the “save for it and pay in cash” thing, finally, as well. We want to replace some lighting and ceiling fans, and could put it on the credit card today, but are waiting until we have enough uncommitted cash to pay for it (given what Mrs. Dean has her eye on, it could be awhile, but that’s OK).
Personal freedom requires personal responsibility.
Words I live by.
I’m still an asshole though.
“Personal freedom requires personal responsibility. Otherwise you’re just an asshole.”
WUT?
I can’t make the productive pay for my dumb shit? What kind of evul world are you forcing us to live in. Others should always be held responsible, especially financially, for my stupid shit…
/prog off
It’s been a while since I’ve read Sowell’s “Basic Economics”, but in it he lays out the three ways to avoid poverty. 1) Greaduate high school. 2) Get a job, any job. 3) Don’t have kids out of a committed relationship.
The poverty rate for those who did those three things was in the low single digits.
I did “greaduate” high school.
No anonymity for you.
In March, Florida’s governor signed a new law tightening gun restrictions — raising the minimum age for gun purchases to 21, among other things.
The changes came after passionate advocacy from survivors of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Fla., in February.
The NRA is challenging the new age limit, saying 18-year-olds are adults with a constitutional right to bear arms — and old enough to “fight and die by arms” in the military. It said the law is particularly unfair to young women, who are very unlikely to perpetrate violent crime.
Originally, no individuals were named in the suit — it just described “NRA members” in general.
But the gun rights organization later added references to “John Doe” and “Jane Doe,” 19-year-old Floridians who would like to own guns but are not allowed under the new law.
It asked for permission to keep the teenager’s true names out of the lawsuit, to protect them from hateful attacks.
The story in full isn’t really outrageous; it sounds like the judge was sympathetic to their argument but felt precedent was against them. The real outrage is that this bullshit law got passed using a battering ram made of dead bodies. It’s almost as if there should be some sort of cooling off period.
Thanks for an awesome website, SP. works great on my iPhone. Easy to surf, read, comment, scroll. You’re the best.
I know it’s late but West Coast – thank you for all you did and do for us reprobates on regular basis!
Nice try, Tulpa, but we know nobody lives on the west coast. It’s all delta smelt and botox zombies in the south to vegan ghouls and hipters in the north.
STEVE SMITH LIVE ON WEST COAST. AND BY LIVE MEAN…
That’s why we made him our KING IN THE NORTH!
Ok, i don’t really give a flying fuck about the Israeli / Palestinian conflict flare ups because (reasons); not my circus, not my monkeys etc.
but what does tend to get on my nerves are when certain kinds of arguments get popularized because they “Sound Good” and everyone starts repeating them like they make lots of sense.
example:
– say you have a mob of 300 people with clubs
– and they approach a border post with 5 guys (with machine guns)
at what point do the border guards have the right to open fire?
A) when the border fence has been breached?
(and there’s no chance of repelling the mob anymore; making the entire premise of the border-gate moot – given their entire reason for being there was to prevent exactly this sort of aggression; basically…. they can only fire to save their own lives, *but not actually do the job they were there to do*)
B) – when the guards themselves are being physically harmed?
(isn’t that the same as A? if you have to wait until you’re sustaining injury, the standard bars you from enforcing the basic premise for your presence)
the only reason i dwell on this sort of thing at all is because it reminds me of previous discussions about Libertarian foreign policy and how the NAP actually would apply in any real scenarios; the comparison that comes to mind is when i asked, “Would the NAP require the US to allowed Cuba have nuclear weapons?” – iow, would the NAP have barred the US from blockading missile shipments to Cuba. The answer at the time was “yes”, which i found as problematic as the above scenario.
If your “rule” forces you into situations where you MUST accept situations you can’t defend from… why bother even pretending with ‘defense’? It seems the only valid use of force is “Retaliatory”, and you’ve always got to take one on the chin first.
(iow, if the border guards all have to die to be “proportional”, and the border crossing has to be overrun for it to be a moral use of force… why bother having the border guards at all?)
the NAP (or, this vague idea of “proportionality”, which obv isn’t the same thing) both seem to lead to many absurd situations and – even worse – they both seem to undermine any possibility of use of “escalating force” to manage situations.
Iow, when a mob approaches, you shoot one (in the dick); which gives the rest a chance to say, “Wait a second, this is going to get bad fast”. If they disperse, congratulations, you’ve just prevented mass-bloodshed. If they don’t, well… well i suppose they’ll whine about “proportionality” afterwards, but there will still be a pile of dead people.
Anyway, you get the idea
A mob of armed people trying to penetrate your border are an irregular army. They may be treated as such.
Hamas themselves admitted as much.
They think they will win if the idiot jew shows restraint and they get to kill em, and they win if the jew kills one of these terrorists (armed people not wearing a uniform intent on causing harm are the very definition of that) and their complicit asshats in the media spin that death as extreme violence by the crusaders and their allies.
I have no sympathy for idiots that have turned every deal that would have given them a state and a chance at a better future for their children because said deal didn’t includes genocide. Fuck these assholes.
well that hits on a point which the media has tried to make much of: “how “armed” were they“?
because if you think the ‘armed’-ness is the most significant factor, it becomes a hair splitting contest
I’d amend your simple statement by replacing “armed” with “violent”.
Of course who’s to say they’re ‘violent’ if they haven’t hurt you *yet*? it gives discretion to the person defending to make that determination.
ability, intent, means. The crowd had all three.
(iow, if the border guards all have to die to be “proportional”, and the border crossing has to be overrun for it to be a moral use of force… why bother having the border guards at all?)
Something, something, imaginary lines on the map, so you shouldn’t in the first place?
naturally.
and the idealized anarchist/left-libertarian utopia enjoys 5 minute lifespan
“Is Hamas paying ppl to riot? NBC reporter: “Netanyahu continues to throw out conspiracy theories to US media. Reporters must push back against these types of baseless claims with zero evidence to support” Telegraph reporter: here are photos of rioters cashing their Hamas checks”
https://twitter.com/omriceren/status/996585415611052032
What else is this other than another reason to denigrate Israel and polish all of those otherwise moribund compassion olympics medals? If this were ISIS using Syrian civilians as shields, we’d be clucking our tongues regretfully at the sad nature of war with guerrillas. But Hamas does precisely the same thing–worse, really, in fomenting riots in the first place–and now it’s totally different, despite the fact that Israel is playing defender rather than liberator.
What would critics be saying if Israeli border guards let themselves be massacred or taken hostage, and militants poured over the border and started slaughtering Israeli civilians? Or do they honestly believe that rioters would stop at the border, having made their point, and put flowers in the barrels of Israeli rifles?
They’d say that Israelis are literally Nazis who had it coming.
Proportionality is an idiotic doctrine which only makes it attractive for a weak power to attack a superior power without fear of annihilation. As such it actually creates more violence because it seriously diminishes the deterrent effect.
This is exactly my point above.
Its a shared flaw in both this idea of “proportional response”… and the ‘its not aggression until the bullet hits you‘-verion of NAP-interpretation
both create an artificial barrier to ‘risk mitigation’ and ‘deterrence’ which effectively guarantees that when ANY violence happens, it will be maximal.
they’re both utterly terrible as conflict-theory
Imagine @idvck “proportional” border-gate
it would have 2 layers.
– Gate 1: a handful of guards, lightly armed.
– Gate 2: heavily armed guards
Gate 1 guards go, “oh shit here comes trouble, what should we do”.
Gate 2 guards go, “don’t worry, after you’re all dead, we get to open fire, so the border remains protected”.
Gate 1 guards: “wait, what?”
Gate 2 guards: “proportionality rules, bro”
“Slut-Shaming In The #MeToo Movement
There Is A Smug Flipside To The Solidarity Between Women In The #MeToo Movement.
I have a similar sense about the recent #MeToo movement, much of which seems to be so very high school: all the pretty girls from good families are congratulating each other for ‘bravely speaking out’ about the advances they refused, while the women who made a calculation and opted to get their knees dirty are wisely keeping quiet.
There’s a smugly slut-shaming flipside to the solidarity: wearing black to the Golden Globes, telling stories about who touched whose knee, applauding Oprah’s speech. At least she wasn’t promoting woo like The Secret or contributing to the anti-vax nonsense responsible for America’s latest measles outbreak, so I suppose that’s something.
I mean, if I named my first boss and then told how our frank conversation about what I liked to look at (revealing my sexual orientation) made me feel ‘demeaned’ or ‘afraid’, he would be displayed on the new pillory that is social media and utterly humiliated – or worse.
And yet: buried under the sanctimony is something important. I think ‘Would you like to have sex with me?’ is acceptable (if rather maladroit; seriously lads, read Ovid) in many situations. It’s ‘Have sex with me or else’ that’s the problem. In this instance, the case of Harvey Weinstein is instructive, because it provides an object lesson on the limits of male sexual power.
Biologists tell us that wealth is a proxy for evolutionary fitness. Weinstein shows the line where wealth’s mere proxy-status becomes clear and evolutionary fitness still requires good teeth, hair and muscles. Money will buy only so much of those biological things. This is why Julius Caesar, among the most notorious (and successful) of Roman philanderers, was so sensitive about his bald spot.
That Weinstein looks like a genetically modified cane toad matters, despite attempts to say it isn’t so. People, and women especially, do not want to fuck something foul. Hence Weinstein’s simultaneously repellent and pathetic reliance on NDAs. Men are known to be less choosy on this point, but they too have limits. It is ridiculous to pretend otherwise.
If #MeToo were only about putting the Weinsteins of the world back in their box (and, preferably, in gaol), it would be a moral triumph for our time. Instead, much of it represents a failure to understand how one woman’s flattering pass is another woman’s sexual assault – and its concomitant assertion all women should view insistent male sexual pursuit as the latter, not the former.
The biologists argue this is an example of female intra-sexual competition. Women who accede to male entreaties – those who get their knees dirty – can be written off as sluts (something women do to other women far more frequently than men do to women), which burnishes the refusers’ reputations. Evolutionary psychologists suggest this is a reason why more women are religious than men, at least in monotheistic societies. Conservative religiosity makes it much easier to slut-shame all those promiscuous pagans.”
http://www.penthouse.com.au/articles/opinion/slut-shaming-in-the-metoo-movement
*looks at wall of text*
*wonders what happened to Ken*
We are all Ken. Ken is the new Tulpa.
I think he got locked up after attacking Rand.
HA HA HA HA!
LOL
That hurt my ribs almost as much as Ken hurt Rand’s.
#MeToo is an attempt by Hollywood/Lefty Politicans to cover for and minimize their own depravity. Nothing more, nothing less.
Seriously, after, what, a century of Casting Couch as an institution, all we got (other than Weinstein) were a few third-raters and Kevin Spacey?
I think it’s just one more profit-booster for the grievance industry (Democrat politicians, feminist rags like Jezebel and Everyday Feminism, and university gender “studies” departments).
It really needs to be shouted from rooftops that American women are NOT oppressed. What the feminist Left does is cherry-pick a few narrow circumstances where someone might prefer to be in the man’s spot rather than the woman’s, but that’s not the whole picture.
None of their examples hold up. The fake fact of the “wage gap” has been debunked so many times it’s not funny, and in fact, women report higher job satisfaction rates than men, backing up the rebuttal that any gap is due to women’s career choices. Women are vastly underrepresented in homicides, suicides, homelessness, incarcerations, and workplace deaths. They statistically get lighter sentences than men who commit the same crimes. There’s a strong social stigma against hitting women, but no corresponding injunction against women hitting men. Women initiate an equal or great number of domestic violence incidents, but men more frequently go to jail due to many local statutes that require police to arrest the partner who “poses the greater physical threat”. Women are overrepresented in college graduates, and there are many scholarships just for women as well as “diversity initiatives” at major companies to hire and promote women.
In all meaningful ways, Western women are one of the most privileged classes of people in the history of the world.
Oppression narratives always appeal to the most privileged.
Additionally, the author may be technically right in the last paragraph, but she completely misses the evolutionary reasons for it. Promiscuous women are scabs in the female sexual union. Also, since sex is much more evolutionarily costly for women, tendency toward promiscuity was selected against. I wrote a whole article about it (shameless self-promotion).
https://glibertarians.com/2018/02/sex-wars-episode-1-aka-what-about-our-family-friendly-rating-aka-8d-i/
“One of the scariest things about our times is how easy it is to scare people and start a political stampede. There are people who could be upset if they were told that half of all Americans earn less than the median income—though of course that is the way median income is defined.”
https://twitter.com/ThomasSowell/status/996120687801700353
Math is racist you Uncle Tom house nigger.
The majority of Americans earn more than the Mode, which is $0.
We’re all above average!
Well, the mode of “income reported to or otherwise known by the IRS”.
One of the better replies
And yet: buried under the sanctimony is something important. I think ‘Would you like to have sex with me?’ is acceptable (if rather maladroit; seriously lads, read Ovid) in many situations. It’s ‘Have sex with me or else’ that’s the problem.
You don’t say.
OT: Does anyone know where I can find a more-or-less unbiased summary of the whole Trump-Russia fiasco that only contains things backed up by actual evidence, not mainstream media say-so and insinuations about someone who visited Russia one time? I haven’t kept up with it very well and I’ve sort of lost the plot. I’m reading the Wikipedia timeline, but there are a lot of things in there that just link back to some major media article saying “anonymous officials said…“
The details are all labyrinthine inside baseball but as far as I can tell it’s:
1. Hilldog conspires with Russians to try and influence the election with bullshit dossier.
2. Dossier used as bullshit justification for bullshit FISA warrant authorizing spying on Trump et. al.
3. Trump wins election, flabbergasting Obama/Clinton who thought Hilldog COULD. NOT. LOSE.
4. In literal post-election night scramble, Obama/Clinton play to their strengths by accusing Trump of everything they themselves did.
5. Stupid/cuck party agrees to special council, moronic Sessions recuses himself, Mueller, a partisan operative masquerading as a prosecutor, begins “investigation”.
6. Literally everything else that comes after that is a fishing expedition/witch hunt to try and overthrow Trump; failing that it’s doing the Dems’ impeachment investigation for them should they win the House; failing that it’s an attempt to smear Trump enough that he loses in 2020.
Well done Q.
“”OT: Does anyone know where I can find a more-or-less unbiased summary of the whole Trump-Russia fiasco that only contains things backed up by actual evidence,””
Pretty sure…. Andrew McCarthy @ National Review (i think) did a roundup a while back that was *excellent*, which basically listed all the facts in order, starting w/ pre-campaign details (e.g. manafort stuff), campaign events, then the timeline of the fusion GPS stuff etc.
I linked it here and everyone agreed it was the most comprehensive source of all the facts in one place they’d yet seen.
can’t remember exactly the title, but if you go thru A. McC’s archive there you might find it
https://www.nationalreview.com/author/andrew-c-mccarthy/
this might be it, tho i seem to recall it being farther back than early-may
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/05/strzok-page-texts-trump-russia-investigation-origins/
*that latter thing is def not it.
the roundup article i recall being around the time Cohen was first having his offices raided, which i think was about a month ago?
I am almost 100% certain this is the go-to article:
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/03/russia-collusion-real-story-hillary-clinton-dnc-fbi-media/
I’m guessing they are hiding in someones barn by now. Or as someone posted above, they never were on that Humvee because they were stolen.
The 2007, the airbase in question flew a B52 with 6 live nuclear warhead tipped cruise missiles to Barksdale AFB in Louisiana. It took them three days to figure out they had 6 nukes missing. In 2014 they did an assessment of the nuke program at the base and found that moral was very low and that, “if ‘the current trend of complacency’ in managing the facility continues, it could lead to failure with major consequences,”
Dang. What’s the reward for finding a lost nuke?
A free evening with the Bunny Ranch’s top two whores.
Don’t believe him – you actually get Disappeared as part of the coverup for having misplaced it in the first place. If you’re lucky, they just arrest you for stealing it.
Declaring yourself a Sovereign State. Credible minimum deterrence is a thing.
“Pauley Perrette tweets that the real reason she left “NCIS” was to escape “multiple physical assaults””
https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/996456338166337537
Dang. What’s the reward for finding a lost nuke?
Ask SPECTRE.
You are awesome SP. Thanks for creating and maintaining this site.
I’m late to the party. Thanks SP!