Today is the last Monday in July. You know what that means. Today is Web Dominatrix’s birthday. Also, I got tired of seeing the permalink say “monday-afternoon-links-37”. I don’t know what everyone else did this weekend, but I ended up driving to Century, FL. For those who don’t know, Century is a pistol shot from Alabama to the north, and a rifle shot from Alabama to the west. I use firearms-based distances because I was visiting a prison. Warty told me I might be a redneck if I spend a whole weekend going to visit a family member in prison. Anyhow, I did the family thing, my youngest son got to see his grandfather for the first time since the boy was weeks old — he’s now weeks from being three. Its not the most fun, but it isn’t a terrible thing for my kids to understand just how much even visiting prison sucks, much less having to stay there. I will say that (for the first time ever) I encountered not a single surly or power-tripping guard. They all were professional, and a couple were downright polite. I’m assuming it was my kids’ winning personalities that brought out the best in them.
There was no Sportzball update, so let me get that in: Cleveland Browns picked as “most likely to improve” by ESPN. Glad that the egg-head statisticians have pointed out that regression to the mean is on the Browns’ side. OMWC’s benighted Orioles won a game and scored 11 runs. Save some of those for a close loss, boys. Red Sox and Yanquis won, too. Indians, Big Red Machine, Marlins, Braves, Mets, Blue Jays, Rangers, Rockies, Mariniers, Giants, D-Backs, and Cubbies won. AL MVP Jose Altuve went on the DL for the first time in his career. Apparently, he fell off the step stool he uses to reach the top shelf of his locker and hurt his knee.
Kangaroo food riots in Australia. When they start kicking people down and stealing their food, the Aussies will wish they hadn’t lost all those rifles in freak boating accidents. Or start blasting kangaroos.
I’m interested in the legal point of this one. Can a union member wear a union shirt in an ad supporting a political proposition the union opposes? The libertarian in me says he can wear any shirt he owns while making an advertisement. The union contends he is misleading the public into believing that the union supports the position by doing so. Can police departments then send take-down notices of officers shooting dogs in uniform?
Florida Reporter kills me with this headline: “Six people in St. Petersburg receive medical treatment after smell of carbon monoxide”. Carbon monoxide is an odorless, colorless gas. Most likely a CO detector alerted.
Bank of America acts like a giant bank, pisses off customer with bureaucracy.
You will look at the tits. Even if you think you don’t want to, you will.
Exceptional set.
http://archive.is/kGHAM
7, 8, 12, 17, 21, 25, 33, 35, 36, 39, 40, 43, 51, 55, 56, 58.
I think the tit pic articles thing is getting old. Might I suggest switching to ass a few times a week?
“Might I suggest switching to ass a few times a week”
Your mother offered the same advice…
Dang, that’s cold-blooded.
Iguana make a pun here, but I can’t think of one…
For you.
http://archive.is/zp7J5
You have HM for your desired links – for instance, one of the greatest hits from TOS.
Too funny. I read it and my first thought was this (which I assume I was also exposed to by HM, so work unfriendly warning).
2.
You bet!
Beautiful, but those implants look positively painful.
There’s a horror movie in the making here.
“mob” of roos is the correct collective noun.
Raston Bot should get an award for clicking on at least one of WebD’s morning links and then using the information therein.
I wonder if those things taste good. They look like they would for some reason.
They’re pretty bland. You’re not missing much.
I should note I had it as a chili and it was still on the bland side.
Ostrich, on the other hand, is quite flavorful but is almost too lean.
There was a rumor in the 90s that McDonald’s was using roo meat because of some loophole that allowed them to call it beef. I love a good conspiracy.
Ha, I remember that.
I vaguely remember some “fact” that a large container ship owned by McDonald’s left Australia bound for the US. Some stupid shit like that…
At one point they were using worms. Until it was discovered that worms were a great deal more expensive than beef.
Here, you can find out in 48 hours.
https://www.amazon.com/Newport-Jerky-Company-Kangaroo/dp/B01IWBPRII/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?ie=UTF8&qid=1532988722&sr=8-1-spons&keywords=kangaroo+jerky+for+humans&psc=1
Well I’ll be damned. Ordered and thanks.
28 Roos Later?
Mad Max: Beyond Roo Dome?
who runs Roo Town?
Kanga?
Roo’s That Girl?
The Name of the Roos
Russel Crowe in Romper (Roo) Stomper
Eric Bana in cHopper
Horton Hears A Roo
Kung Fu Kanga
Any Which Way But Roos
The Taming of the Roo
The easiest way to see wild kangaroos in Australia is to visit their national capital.
Roonado
Roonado 4: The Roo-ening!
*Scary-voice movie trailer guy*
“You will Roo the day!”
“According to a 2016 report, there are more than 44 million kangaroos in the country. As of the 2016 Census, Australia has a human population of 24 million.”
The Aussies are screwed if there’s a roo uprising.
An UpROOsing?
The final solution to the Kanga problem has already been worked out.
Kangnado? Hurrikang?
Retired St. Louis Police sergeant Gary Wiegert urged voters to support Proposition A, which would ban employers from mandating union membership dues or fees as a condition of employment. Wiegert, the former head of the St. Louis Police Officers Association, criticized “out of touch union officials” for “lying to you about Prop A.”
If anyone would know, it would be him.
Cleveland Browns picked as “most likely to improve” by ESPN.
The Browns are so Browny that I keep forgetting they were 0-16 last year.
And it was one of their better recent seasons at that.
My boss is a huge Browns fan and he was pissed that there was an unofficial “Perfect Season” parade at the stadium.
They don’t even want to improve. Brown’s fan eagerly look forward to squandering more #1 draft picks
They got rid of Kizer.
My father in law and wife are both Browns fans and they were enraged that the parade happened.
Eh, it did raise some money for charity.
As a sports fan, there is a certain level of ineptitude that if you continue blindly support the franchise, you’re simply part of the problem.
They nearly beat the Packers. 🙁
Worded differently, they dropped a two touchdown, fourth quarter lead to Brett Hundley.
The only Hundley not to play catcher at that.
Coincidentally, they were also named “most likely to let their fans down” by the United Undertakers Association.
What’s he in prison for?
Also, I take it you’re a fan of Foxworthy’s ‘You might be a redneck’ bit?
Being an idiot, like most of them. In his particular case, he misappropriated the better part of a million bucks from his employer. And because he’s an idiot, he had nothing to show for it that he wouldn’t have had if he’d just not been an idiot and not stolen the money.
How did he get for being an idiot?
8 years. Has to serve 85%. He’s due out in four years and two weeks, more or less. unless he does something exceedingly stupid. But as he doesn’t smuggle contraband or engage in violence, he’ll get out.
My freshman year of college, I did one of those “service” things by being a prison tutor. Minimum-security prison in VT, and it still creeped me out.
Personally I’m against prisons existing at all. I think the perverse incentives are impossible to overcome and there is no way to have a prison that is not a factory for human rights abuses.
In my opinion, we should look to our medieval germanic ancestors and return to exile/outlawry for extreme cases where a restitution fails. You have been judged to be egregiously outside moral norms and cannot or will not make sufficient restitution, so now you have to get the fuck out. No one will “make” you leave, but as an outlaw you are literally outside the law. Meaning literally anyone can do anything to you without fear of legal reprisal. Only a fucking retard sticks around in that situation and mob justice will see to him shortly.
Where do you exile them?
Pedophiles – a deserted desert island. Pedo Island?
Or maybe we just finally throw in the towel on Detroit. Or maybe this is the ultimate plan to make Mexico build for the border wall – we’ll send all our undesirables south.
We don’t send them anywhere just give them a short grace period to get the fuck out before all legal protections are stripped from them. Can’t find a country willing to take you? I guess you’re SOL.
What would be the bag limit on the most dangerous game?
Would game control treat them like other nuisances, or would they try to monetize it and make you buy tags?
The problem is the modern world is largely too civilized for that to work.
There really isn’t an option for allowing anyone who wants to gun down an outlaw or enslave them and not have that spilling over to far more generalized violence and barbarism against non outlaws.
The first problem is unlike Medieval Europe where communities were small and even in mid sized cities you were passingly familiar with everyone who lived there and did not trust outsiders at all an outlaw today could quite easily continue living a normal life with pretty much no one knowing he was made an outlaw. Just move to a new town across the state line. Sure someone who was motivated to look into you could probably figure out you were an outlaw but unless you gave them reason to do so who would bother.
The second problem is outside of revenge and a sadistic desire to kill for the sake of killing why would anyone bother going after an outlaw? It would be a dangerous business as the outlaw knows he is fair game for anybody and so will almost certainly be armed.
Third. If someone does go after the outlaw in any kind of remotely public setting bystanders will almost certainly perceive the vigilantes as the aggressors and the outlaw as the victim as they are highly unlikely to be aware of the targets status as an outlaw and are reasonably likely to intervene on the outlaws behalf which will inevitably lead to much higher death counts than just the number of outlaws.
Fourth, how do you deal with Robin Hood. No, not the stealing from the rich and giving to the poor part. The part where he is labled an outlaw by the state but some part of the populace considers him a hero and protects him. It doesn’t even matter which side is right, in any meaningful sense, as long as there is a segment of the population who believes a particular outlaw is a hero any attempts to take action against the outlaw will lead to civil unrest and a breakdown of order.
I am not any bigger of a fan of Prisons than you are but this is no better of a solution
Every solution has it’s own problems. My version IS a better solution than prisons. It doesn’t call for evil rape cages staffed by government workers and paid for with extorted tax dollars.
You cite modernity as making outlawry difficult. It actually makes it easier. We live in a world where people can’t escape a drunkpost made on an internet forum 15 years ago. The weaponized autistic neural net known as 4chan can find an outlaw hiding out with bushmen of Burundi in about 9 minutes flat. If you did something terrible enough to warrant outlawry then odds are someone out there wants to see you dead. People would go after an outlaw (or hire someone else to do so) specifically for vengeance yes. You act like modern man has no thirst for vengeance and that’s insane.
You ask about attacking outlaws in public places like that’s a new problem. Solved the same way bounty hunters, Pinkertons, and federal agents, etc have hunted people forever. Namely you DON’T engage them in public places but track them until they are isolated and engage then.
The Robin Hood Scenario: I don’t wanna go after Robin Hood. The canon legend shows Robin Hood as an anarchist hero and I’m down with that. He didn’t rob the rich. He robbed the aristocracy. Yes they were rich but they were also the government. fuck em. If people want to protect a folk hero, then let them.
My solution is admittedly ancap because I am an ancap. I’m not arguing that my solution creates utopia. I’m arguing it solves several huge problems of government overreach and spending.
So you are good with A bunch of Bernie Bro’s protecting Anti Fa Outlaws?
absolutely.
I agree 100%. I think prisons, and the meme supporting punishment via state employees, is one of the foundations supporting the idea of states. It’s also unethical- where does Bob the prison guard get the right to imprison anyone?
The only people who have any ethical/contractual right to interfere in a (alleged) criminal’s life are those they directly harmed/threatened or those who have been contracted to protect these victims.
Once you look at interactions from a contractual framework almost all state actions become unethical.
I agree 100%. I think prisons, and the meme supporting punishment via state employees, is one of the foundations supporting the idea of states. It’s also unethical- where does Bob the prison guard get the right to imprison anyone?
The only people who have any ethical/contractual right to interfere in a (alleged) criminal’s life are those they directly harmed/threatened or those who have been contracted to protect these victims.
Once you look at interactions from a contractual framework almost all state actions become unethical.
I agree 100%. I think prisons, and the meme supporting punishment via state employees, is one of the foundations supporting the idea of states. It’s also unethical- where does Bob the prison guard get the right to imprison anyone?
The only people who have any ethical/contractual right to interfere in a (alleged) criminal’s life are those they directly harmed/threatened or those who have been contracted to protect these victims.
Once you look at interactions from a contractual framework almost all state actions become unethical.
Thunderdome: Pedos v. Roos!
I feel the same way. Prisons should not have a place in society.
For most crimes, the perpetrator should have to make restitution to the victim or the victim’s family. For a first-time DUI driver who causes a fatality, that person may be restitution for the rest of their life. Prison serves no one except the government collecting their vig.
For crimes involving rape, murder, armed robbery, and kidnapping, remove them from society permanently. I would choose death penalty over exile to prevent these animals from harming more victims, but it’s the same point.
Since this is a purely philosophical discussion, whether or not the government can be trusted to only execute the guilty is a different conversation. I also have a serious objection to having money forcibly taken from myself and others in the form of taxes to house, feed, and clothes these kind of inmates for the rest of their lives in prison.
I’ve been working on a project involving local authority in one of Britain’s mainland colonies during the 18th century. There were, of course, a number of capital crimes. But one of the things I’ve found interesting is that for crimes where a fine was imposed (e.g. fornication, adultery), the fine was to be paid directly to the “overseers of the poor” in the town where the perpetrators were resident. The men who served as o/p had to keep account books and had to spend all monies directly on the poor.
Now, SLD on such actions being crimes and public care for the poor aside, this strikes me as pretty good solution (guilty parties usually had to pay costs & fees as well).
“I’ve been working on a project involving local authority in one of Britain’s mainland colonies during the 18th century.”
So you’re a time-traveler?
His name is Snake Plissken …
The Hokies have their own prison?
Oh, this is fuckin’ rich:
“There is little due process in the court of public opinion. James is likely not the last good person to be put on trial. Given the growing political divide in this country, it’s safe to say instances like this will continue, although we hope American from across the political spectrum can ease up on the character assassinations and stop weaponizing mob mentality,” the letter continued.
Very touching words on behalf of a man who, just the week before, was part of a mob excoriating some guy for the deadly sin of saying that Ben Shapiro is a nice guy.
I don’t think anyone should be fired for dumb shit they’ve said on Twitter, but you’re looking for sympathy in the wrong place when it comes to “ease up on the character assassinations and stop weaponizing mob mentality” Get your own house in order, motherfuckers, before you start lecturing anyone else.
I continue to hold to my own principles. They go low, we go high. Everyone’s getting dragged down into this shit right now.
I try to take that point of view, I honestly, truly do…..but while I’d never be a participant in such a mob, I find myself not caring in the slightest when the left’s own tactics bite one of their own in the ass. As they say, too bad for them if they don’t like the new rules they’ve created.
Yeah, I have to agree. In principle, I’d like to say that I’d defend these guys’ right to speak their minds without fear of an online mob. But, at a certain point, why bother putting the energy out for bastards that would mob up against you in a New York minute? There’s enough cases of genuinely sympathetic people who I can put my sympathies toward.
I don’t see how anyone can think that’s a good tactic. It has failed completely over and over again. It’s like saying socialism could work. There’s enough history for everyone to realize that won’t work.
I can’t believe they let Pratt get away with all that Biblin’.
He’ll be flung into the void when Disney is done making money on those silly movies.
How dare you say something nice about your friend who’s a GOP candidate?
As pointed out by someone on twitter, that apology reads like something from a Maoist struggle session.
Yeah, we kicked that one around in the previous comments. Pathetic.
DON’T APOLOGIZE YOU DUMBASS!!!!!
We’re breeding a whole new generation of wannabe executioners.
This is a public university. In a red state. It’s mostly paid for with the tax dollars of Republicans.
It’s almost fascinating how these minds work. Like, I kind of can see how the right wing conspiracy nut comes to the conclusions they do. Like, why would you instantly say he wouldn’t vote for a black woman? He probably voted for Obama.
Which makes me wonder why the state legislatures don’t do or say much about this sort of thing? I mean, it’s a great opportunity for cheap showmanship. It’s not exactly like the social justice mob is just a huge hit with the general public (even less so in red states). You’d think GOP politicians would be all over it. Yet, they never seem to say or do much about these stories.
From time to time, one will make noise about it. But in general, it’s the tend of the thing that tends to get the media’s panties in a bunch and leads to cries that they’re attacking academic freedom. I mean, I’m pretty sure Robby to be sure’d on this issue a couple times at the other site.
Deathly afraid of being called a racist.
What’s going to eventually happen is large swathes of the population are going to ignore any and all accusations of racism. You see it already to some extent with Trump. When that trend grows wider, the real racists will be free to do as they will because nobody’s going to care if someone is accused of racism.
He forgot a “j/k fuck off!” at the end. Must be that 140 character limit.
Let me ask a question. As others noted, this was a dean of a public school in red state. What the hell did he have to succumb to the social justice mob for?
His self esteem comes from the group. If he’s not part of the group he has no identity. It’s a pathological need.
Old article, but it’s never too late to highlight how the WoD is utterly evil and immoral.
https://www.painnewsnetwork.org/stories/2016/5/27/are-cdcs-opioid-guidelines-causing-more-suicides
I was helping my mother, who has chronic pain issues in her back along with having MS, this past weekend, and she was near tears in pain and doctors aren’t prescribing anything to help.
I want to string every fucking politician behind these laws from a bridge by their testicles/nipples (as applicable) with piano wire.
Has she tried kratom? It’s not the panacea hippies make it out to be, but many people have had excellent success with using kratom to manage chronic pain.
That stuff is excellent for pain, it isn’t Percodan but it works well.
Stock up before the DEA puts it on schedule 1 (which they have already signaled their intention to do so).
They did but there was a backlash and they backed down. I don’t think they’re too likely to move forward with it.
*wipes tear away*
These were some of the last Sullum articles before his brain was obliterated by TDS
More switches to heroin and ODs too.
Fuck Congress right in the ass for putting the CDC on opioid abuse issues. Stick to bacteria and viruses.
Anything other than communicable diseases, particularly communicable disease epidemics, should be forcibly stripped from the CDC.
That practice really ticks me off. Given a chance, I’d cleanse the CDC of all extraneous missions with prejudice.
ZARDOZ approves.
On that same thought; have any of you seen those government ads against opiate abuse? Jesus Christ, they make the the old 80’s anti drug ads look sane by comparison. One features a strung out dude manically looking through his garage for a hammer before smashing his hand so he can get some of that sweet sweet Vicodin. The other is a chick purposefully driving her car at high speed into a dumpster.
Ah, the old days
A classic, that.
Something funny on the topic.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VKDccUFqmDQ
The Malibu ad they do is great.
I didn’t know about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKXN6Vdr3g0
They’re Truth.org commercials.
The same disingenuous fucks that put out the anti-smoking ads that make me want to start smoking.
I think those ads should all carry a prominent “This commercial was paid for by the tobacco industry” label at the beginning and end of those commercials.
Perhaps the smell of CO was actually exhaust?
Wish I had found this in time for the links. Its a fun pick me up. (Guy had a GoPro on his hat, dog picks up the hat and makes a perfect recording. My favorite parts are the guy randomly popping into the picture waving his arms or looking bemusedly frustrated)
That was Fun! He Had a Racetrack
That was funny!
that was funny. thx
needs some Benny Hill soundtrack!
Bank of America acts like a giant bank, pisses off customer with bureaucracy.
A few years ago, I got a notice in the mail that Bank of America sold my free online checking account to a different bank. I dug in and found out the new bank was going to start charging me something like 20 bucks/month for the privilege of having my account at their crappy little bank (fee not disclosed). I just used this account for PayPal so it was not worth keeping.
BoA did not give me the option of not having my account closed instead of having it transferred. I then had to haul my wife and kids to one of the branches of the new bank to close our account in person. Where we waited for almost 2 hours. I was pretty pissed with BoA.
I’d presume it’s a federal law. I would have thought FATCA, although one person at the bottom of the comments mentions a different law passed shortly after 9/11.
I’ve closed other bank accounts remotely before, within the past year. Just had to sign a sheet and fax it in. Same with opening, though I also needed to include a photocopy of my license to open.
“Today is Web Dominatrix’s birthday.”
Happy Birthday!
““Now he been exposed as a devotee of Bigfoot erotica,” Cockburn wrote about Riggleman. “This is not what we need on Capitol Hill.”
https://www.dailyprogress.com/news/local/cockburn-calls-out-riggleman-s-bigfoot-posts/article_83106674-9396-11e8-9291-337557ec0006.html
“devotee of Bigfoot erotica”
Rex Ryan?
nice.
I was disappointed to find that it wasn’t Alexander Cockburn, but seeing as the guys been dead for five years, perhaps unsurprising.
She is his niece or somesuch.
Ah, sister in law and the accuser, not the acussee.
I disagreed with a lot of Alexander Cockburn’s positions (and agreed with some), but the world is a worse place without him. I miss his columns.
Anyhoo, Alexander C as a Bigfoot erotica fan would have just been a feather in his cap.
^^^ I probably would pay a few bucks to read an Alexander Cockburn column of this sort.
Good god – if any of my military buddies ever run for political office, it’s going to be…well, it’s going to just be great.
Also, other site covered this. I had to click just to see STEVE SMITH references. It was disappointing. So sad.
STEVE BIG DEVOTER OF BIGFOOT EROTICA
Medicare for All Will Save Trillions, Conservative Wonks Forced to Admit
That’s not all. Buried way down at the end of the AP story is this tidbit:
The study found U.S. health care spending under Sanders’ plan would drop over time — about $300 billion lower in 2031.
That’s right: the AP emphasizes immediately after its lede that trillion has a ‘t,’ but doesn’t think this last point—that the bill would actually reduce our astronomical healthcare costs overall, not to mention the fact that it would cover everyone—merits a mention except as an afterthought near the very end.
Oh Splinter. If you click the AP story and go right to the line they cite, IMMEDIATELY after that line is this one:
“However, it also found that potential savings would vanish if hospitals and doctors aren’t willing to accept lower fees for patients who are now privately insured. In that case, the U.S. would spend about $400 billion more in 2031.”
I’m sure that Berniecare will bend the cost curve, just like Obamacare did. Just not in the direction they expect.
You just don’t understand economics of scale!
/splinter commenter
When it comes to socialized healthcare, when they talk about lower costs, what they really mean is that they are going to use government to ration care. They are going to limit the supply of healthcare all in the name of helping you, the people!
400 billion sounds like a conservative estimate.
Single-payer legal care, with no lawyer earning more than minimum wage, because no lawyer does anything worth more than minimum wage.
Make sure this applies to all the lawyers in Congress as well.
They can have $15/billable hour.
I would like them to start with a modest proposal.
Lets move 100% of federal and “state” employees to the new plan… no exceptions. (I’m looking at you congress +president)… and then we can evaluate how the system will scale..
Either this proposal or the VA for all one… go for it… for your minions first… If you can’t make that work with your new socialist xe. Then the rest of us shouldn’t be forced to participate.
Half a dozen states in the country have proposed their own single payer systems, and all of them went “Shit, we’d have to more than double the state’s budget to pay for it. Pass”
But it will totally save money when applied to all fifty states at once. Yup yup yup.
Well, yeah, I mean except for this.
32.6 Trillion dollar free healthcare
See, that’s why Bernie Bae can’t do that math, it’s a big number, like you need to a rocket surgeon and stuff.
In regards to the union shirt. Film has lots of rules about brand logos and I don’t see how this is any different. If the owner of the brand demands it must be removed (that usually means blurring it out).
I think that’s bullshit though. If someone voluntarily sells something with a label. Then it exists in reality.
I figure once they sell or give the shirt away, it isn’t theirs to command anymore. Of course, I am anti-IP, so ignore me.
I’m extremely pro-IP, but have the same view. It’s like me selling a patented widget. You buy it, it’s yours to do with as you wish.
This is the law, for better or for worse, for patents. The SCOTUS takes a very dim view of those who try to enforce patent rights after the first sale.
Film has lots of rules about brand logos and I don’t see how this is any different.
I think that’s because they want to not show a logo unless someone pays for product placement. I’m pretty sure if you show a Coke can in a film, Coca-Cola Inc. can’t do a damn thing about it.
You can’t generally use a trademark without the permission of the trademark owner. Now, the union gave the shirtmaker permission to put the union logo on that shirt and sell it. I don’t think they have any right to control what someone who buys the shirt uses it for. Kinda exactly like when you buy a t-shirt with your team logo on it. This isn’t my field, but I don’t think any court would allow, say, the Dallas Cowboys to prohibit people from wearing Cowboy-branded merchandise that was made and sold under a license from the Cowboys. Even if they weren’t really Cowboy fans.
It’s murky, different lawyers in different districts have different views.
I have a “funny” Bank of America type story. Eons ago I had my mortgage with them. I came into an extra 5 figures of money and decided to make a big principle payment. I called them up, got that all figured out and as I was finishing up the conversation, the woman asked me if I wanted to refinance for free back up to my original balance (I was close to having the condo paid off after the big payment). Ummm….no, I am trying to pay it off, I just made a huge principle, why would I want to reverse it?
I’ve had those types of conversations before.
I usually respond with “No, I’m not an idiot.”
lol. “No you dumb bitch. If I wanted more money I could have spent the money I just gave you”
“well, depending on your tax bracket, for the deduction”
/gets gun, shoots phone
It actually makes sense if you are in the 102% tax bracket.
okay that’s making me chuckle uncontrollably right now.
Pomperipossa in Monismania
102% was picked basically at random. I am glad I did. That story is good.
On the other hand, she apparently continued to vote for them.
On the other hand, she apparently continued to vote for them.
So one might say she had Stockholm Syndrome.
i almost asked, then Ted posted and i thought “you guys are too learned for me around here”
I had a mortgage with BofA, too. One of their advisers actually proposed something sensible: to convert the mortgage into a HELOC with a lower interest rate and no fees of any kind. I definitely ended up paying less to the bank.
Pentagon spends $50 million on Fraud and Waste Prevention Summit
It made me laugh.
Aussies sabotage US plan to start WW3
WASHINGTON — The White House wouldn’t confirm or deny an Australian report that leaders there expect President Trump to bomb Iran as early as next month.
According to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, “senior figures in the Turnbull government” said the United States is “prepared to bomb Iran’s nuclear capability,” with assistance from Aussie and British intelligence to identify targets.
“Developing a picture is very different to actually participating in a strike,” a security source told ABC. “Providing intelligence and understanding as to what is happening on the ground so that the government and allied governments are fully informed to make decisions is different to active targeting.”
The Joint Defense Facility Pine Gap in Australia’s Northern Territory is partly run by the CIA and NSA, and controls U.S. spy satellites passing over Asia and the Middle East. The U.S., UK and Australia, along with Canada and New Zealand, comprise the Five Eyes intelligence alliance.
ABC reported that the Australian government is divided over whether they think Trump is ready to act or whether his Twitter threats to Iran were bluster.
Oh, I see. You’re full of shit.
He’a just using the same strategy he always uses. It’s amazing how many people are so damn stupid that they can’t seem to catch on:
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/30/trump-i-am-ready-to-meet-with-iran-anytime-they-want-to.html
If he were interested in bombs dropping on Iran, he could probably just tell Israel “Go ahead”.
“Please read my new book, “Bigfoot’s Dong and End of Liberal Political Correctness””
https://twitter.com/allahpundit/status/1023993709891911680
Pregnant goat dies after being allegedly gangraped by 8 men in Haryana
https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/pregnant-goat-dies-after-being-gangraped-by-8-men-in-haryana/story-JlFvxZgoPAePsZ4SVz7RbJ.html
“gangraped by 8 men in Haryana”
omg in heryana?…
ok, i admit, i don’t understand goats: where’s her yana located?
Joking aside, this is the state adjacent to the Delhi National Capital Region. I had to travel there last year (Haryana that is). This story does not surprise me in the slightest. Women under the age of 80 do NOT go out unaccompanied.
“Women under the age of 80 do NOT go out unaccompanied.”
Maybe that’s just because they knew you were there…
I’d be curious to know at which point in a female’s life, on average, she becomes less attractive to a horny young male than a goat.
This is India soooooo…. like 30?
He had to gather pics for the links from somewhere.
When I first saw that story I was convinced that had to be a hoax site. Way too many biases being confirmed in it. Near as I can tell though it looks like the site is legit
Bug Assault AOW:
https://www.bugasalt.com/pages/how-gun-works
Bigfoot T-Shirt
https://www.bugasalt.com/collections/pinchwear/products/t-shirt
STEVE SMITH T Shirts!
oh they have one in muddy girl camo!
They don’t work.
/disappointed
I have BugASalt 2.0. Kills the fuck out of flys.
Will only knock down a wasp.
Entertaining.
Super AIDS
https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/07/25/welcome-to-the-next-deadly-aids-pandemic/
Humanity will have betrayed today’s children if they grow up to face the same small set of options to protect themselves from infection as 20-somethings today.
give the WHO more money or their blood, their drug-resistant AIDS blood, will be on your hands. and you don’t want that shit on your hands. especially if you have a paper cut.
Stay a virgin till you marry; then fuck only your spouse until you die.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIING
Right.
But dying of an incurable disease is not boring.
^^ This. As my dad said years ago: As long as I’m faithful to my wife, the odds of catching this drop to almost zero. The almost zero was because this was back when the blood supply was still suspect.
It is a strategy that works straight or gay.
I remember back in grad school there was this student org always begging for money https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FACE_AIDS
I was always like why would I want to support Face AIDS? Face AIDS sounds like a lot shittier than regular AIDS
FACE AIDS went on to become Facebook.
^there’s got to be a better FACE AIDS/Facebook joke in there
“FACE AIDS is what i call Facebook”
Mark Zuckerberg gave me FaceAids.
He gave everybody FaceAids.
South Park already addressed Super AIDS .
Fiat Chrysler Recalling V8s Over Stuck Cruise Control, Sudden Acceleration
Yay technology!!
800 runaway horses doesn’t sound that fun.
Ghost of Marchionne?
i’ve never used cruise control. I’ll buy one of the malfunctioning ones if the discount is right.
Cruise control sucks.
I find a lot of what you people post in the comments here at Glibs-R-Us asinine, the Media Derangement Syndrome, the shitty music-related opinions, etc… But this may be the single most wrongiest statement ever. Greatest modern conveniences ranked – Big boxes that keep Beer cold and then Cruise Control and then everything else.
Seconded.
This. I’m on cruise control any time there isn’t somebody right in front of me. Keeps my lead foot in check.
The last car I used cruise control on was a 1991 Geo Prizm.
Then I started buying cars I actually enjoyed driving.
Tapping the brakes to disengage the cruise control may be ineffective, but you should be able to slow & stop the vehicle by applying and holding the brakes.
Between this and say, putting it in neutral, I have to agree in theory.
Knowing how people react when something doesn’t work 100% perfectly….a 20 car pile up is inevitable.
Your engine will easily overcome the brakes and destroy them, especially on any of the V8s. Unless, of course, you shift into neutral first. In which case, if your engine is running away on you, you’ll only destroy the transmission or the torque converter.
There’s only one thing left for Aussie man to do. Unleash the only predator that can take the threat down.
Also, kangaroo fighting a goat. Narrated by a Russian guy.
Also, a war between monkey and otter.
If you bet on the monkeys, you’re wrong.
Otters are pretty Smart, Damn!
You otter not mess with them!
I would have bet on the monkey. Monkeys have been to space. Hell, they beat man to space. Otters have never been to space.
That you know of…
*adjusts tin foil helmet*
Video 1 is why Florida has no kangaroo problem.
Once the female started talking all I heard was ‘Moose und Skwrill”
He’s definitely gonna owe her a lot of foot rubs.
https://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/front-range/castle-rock/husband-mistakenly-shoots-wife-in-castle-rock-because-he-thought-she-was-an-intruder-police-say
I always heard this one phrased as “What do you tell a woman with two black eyes?”
Vegans are the worst
A group of vegans held a “vigil” over the weekend to protest the Wrightsville Beach Inshore Challenge in North Carolina, one of the nation’s largest fishing competitions, and to “raise awareness” about animal rights.
Carrying signs that read “Fish Want to Live” and “Sea Life Not Sea Food,” the vegan activists told reporters that they wanted to drive home the idea that fish have families, and that they don’t want to be ripped from their happy lives under the sea to appear on a dinner plate.
“We’re vegan activists, and we want to bring awareness to what fish go through,” one protester told a local news outlet. “Look at it from this fish’s point of view. If you were in your home, you would not want a hook to be hooked in the mouth, you would not want to be pulled up, you wouldn’t have to fight hours for your life to be pulled up. It’s scary.”
Others got philosophical about their mission, comparing their own lives to those of their fishy friends.
“We want to come out for the fish,” another protester told reporters. “A lot of times, they look so different from us that you don’t really put them into a position where you give them individual status, where they are actually individuals that want to live. They don’t want to pulled out of the water, fish have families, fish want to live.”
They’d be horrified to find out how many fish I have personally caught, killed and eaten in my lifetime. And I’m only in my upper 20s, so there is plenty of time for more. Incidentally that begs a question: What do they think about fish eating other fish?
Show them the video of the monkey being drowned by the otters.
Fish are friends, not food.
Friends are food, not fish.
Years ago PETA had a big push for their anti-fishing campaign. I signed one of my buddies up for it and they sent him a bunch of literature, some buttons and a bumper sticker that said “Fishing Hurts”. He put the bumper sticker on his tackle box and laughed and laughed.
He wasn’t so happy about the gazillion fund raising letters and phone calls he got from PETA though.
“Fish have families”
heeeeeeeeeehhhheeeeeeeeheeee!
Watch fish. They have absolutely zero empathy. The bigger predators like northern pike will eat absolutely anything they can fit in their guts, including other northerns. Fuck Disney and Pixar for anthropomorphizing wild animals.
Fish have no qualms about cannibalism. They also have no qualms about eating their diseased family without a second thought about what may have killed cousin Joe.
https://twitter.com/iowahawkblog/status/1023935768266530817
Those picture are hilarious.
The candlesticks are crooked.
Tacky!
Is that Melania on the piano? Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamn….
That woman is hawt!
YouTube comments RE: The non-existent movie Shazaam and The Mandela Effect
I rather love YT comments.
Does that guy not know what punctuation is?
Well, there is a couple commas in there. And one incorrect use of an apostrophe. *paging Ted*
“My latest Op ED for CNN: A 3D PRINTED GUN IS DOWNLOADABLE DEATH”
https://twitter.com/Alyssa_Milano/status/1023967832076300288
“(CNN) Imagine this: the convicted domestic abuser next door tries to buy a gun. He’s turned down because he fails his background check. When he gets home, he opens up his browser, and in half an hour he’s printing out his own undetectable, fully functional plastic gun, with no background check and no record of his purchase.
As of August 1, it will be a reality in America — unless we are able to stop it.
But without the public electing a Congress with the backbone to stand up to the gun industry and drawing a line in the sand at guns on demand for everyone, anytime, it’s unlikely to happen.”
https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/30/opinions/3d-printed-guns-opinion-alyssa-milano/index.html
Because the gun industry wants people to make their own guns?
…why would he bother with step one??
.. getting frustrated with trying to set up the equipment and machining, Convicted Domestic Abuser just grabs his Louiseville slugger and bludgeons his ex-wife to death. Luckily neither he nor his wife were able to use a firearm. The End.
No one was killed by a gun. Victory!
Huzzah!
Yeah! Now we just need common-sense bat control. Nobody needs a baseball bat and a softball bat!!!!11!!
Common sense large rock control.
…why would he bother with step one??
Why would he bother trying to buy from an authorized dealer, doesn’t it make more sense to follow the narrative by purchasing it from a gun show?
Yes. The gun industry’s business model involves all their customers dying from gunshot wounds or in jail for murder. It’s why they make so much money.
A domestic abuser would have been completely foiled without that gun. FOILED.
I watch a lot of movies. Without that gun, the man would be helpless against the much smaller woman’s punches.
It’s not just the punches, it’s the luchidor-style flying neck scissor move that precedes the punches.
Alternatively: his ex-wife uses *her* equipment to print a gun and defends herself when her lowlife wife-beating husband attacks her.
Madness I tell you! We can’t have people willy nilly using guns to protect themselves!
The left has been pushing the narrative that you are more likely to kill someone you love than a criminal for like a generation now. And it’s basically all you hear about.
The self-defense numbers on guns are pretty fucking astounding. And it’s crickets when it comes to media coverage.
And the self defense numbers are under reported, since most criminals will pass if they know somebody is armed and look for an easier target.
If you see this story at (t)Reason you can read Hihn explaining to you that ‘unalienable’ means the opposite of what ‘unalienable’ means.
Cody Wilson will now name the third iteration of his Ghost Gunner “Downloadable Death”
This narcissistic bitch has no less than 3 Twitter accounts.
*Sheds solitary, manly tear for the loss of Samantha Micelli*
Embrace of the Vapid, her worst role yet and she doesn’t get nekkid.
I might just be sympathetic because would, but her politics aren’t really much different than the typical middle class white bitch who gets hysterical about a few political issues that they have shallow but long held beliefs on. At least she tries to make some distinction between her political actions and her work for fans who don’t care. Though, I wonder how many people really care about Milano’s career unless she’s getting nude in her next project.
Yeah, I guess I agree with you. I suppose I’m just extra triggered by her political activism due to the 30+ year crush I have on her.
She was my first celebrity crush. And she’s still hot.
Shame.
SOMEONE NEEDS TO SHOW HER WHO’S THE BOSS AMIRITE?!
Anally.
*STEVE SMITH RAISES FULL SALUTE, READY FOR SOLEMN DUTY, AND BY SOLEMN DUTY, MEAN… *
I thought it would have been nice for National Review to run an response op-ed by Tony Danza that just said, “Shut up, Samantha”
“Remember that time in the bedroom Sam? When you were alone wth Jonathan and I watched?”
Sometimes I’m not proud of myself.
We’re proud of you.
“DOWNLOADABLE DEATH”
Sounds like a Japanese horror film.
Downroadaber, amirite ?
I would imagine her point of view is slightly tainted by the presence of several long-term stalkers. Regardless, she’s wrong.
“If we don’t scream and yell, any person will be able to start printing 3D guns this Wednesday, August 1st. Jeff sessions can stop this. Pls sign this petition.”
https://twitter.com/chelseahandler/status/1023775085709021184
The joke’s on them. Jeff Sessions doesn’t even know how to long onto the internet to view their petition.
And he’s way too busy throwing 15 year-olds in the slammer for smoking a joint.
At least his incompetence is finally working in our favor.
You know Sessions is a wide stance guy.
If we don’t scream and yell
Because hysterical shrieking has worked so well for you thus far. Perhaps you celeb types should do another PSA. Stick with what works!
The plans were posted in 2013 and downloaded hundreds of thousands of times before the government had them taken down. Even IF you could ban Defense Distributed from putting put the plans, they’re still going to be out there. They’ve been out there for the 5 years DD’s been technically disallowed from having the plans up. They’ve likely been downloaded hundreds of thousands or millions of times since.
Also, given current technology, given how much it would cost to both get the 3D printer capable of printing a gun (no, a $100 3D printer will not do it) and the materials, you’re probably going to go on the black market and buy one anyways.
Or, like Gustave says above, just grab a hammer and bludgeon your ex-wife to death.
Guns arent that complicated and there’s how many people out there that could produce prints.
Also, as a non-felon convicted of a crime of moral turpitude that prevents me from owning a weapon (legally), I’ve never needed a gun to kill.
whoah. What did you do? Did you fuck a goat?
It’s not baaaaaaaaaad
Is that illegal? Like wtf does the goat care?
Can you scuba dive? I’ve heard a ton of firearms get lost in lakes, rivers, etc. every day in boating mishaps.
Better than that downloadable derp
I was just watching a snippet of the recent Pompeo hearing and a Senator voiced his concern that Hamas would be able to pull up weapons plans and print out AR-15s. These people are not intelligent.
Yeah, that’s so much easier than opening the crates of AK47s and RPGs from Iran.
Or assembling katyushas.
These people would have to be committed to a mental health facility of they knew how tooled up most of America really is.
My parents stopped by the other day and my dad commented on my ammo can fort and I had to explain that wasn’t all of it. The crates were kept separately. ?
I bet all the greedy capitalist kangaroos have been pocketing all the food for themselves.
I just cant figure out why we have so many mosquitos .
Bitch from hell as a neighbor. This prolly end up on I.D.
It’s more than 200 feet long and contains between 150 and 250 tires, depending on which of the two families is doing the talking.
The reporter couldn’t count the tires himself?
See what happens when you build too many bike paths ?
Share the path!
More money than sense.
https://twitter.com/Some_BlackGuy/status/1023612270654500864
Huh, Derrick Blackman went to school with STEVE SMITH.
I like his YouTube stuff, he’s an affable fellow.
Asian market update .
Waters cold, deep too.
Shockingly, nobody was shot . At least everyone got home safely.
The world is full of dicks
Suck it!
We’ve been woke mofos here in Minnesoda for 50 years.
Actually, I think that this is a real good story. No snark.
I always thought that character in Charlie Brown was drawn that way because he was the kid who smelled/didn’t bathe.
There already was Pigpen though.
I could never get onto Charle Brown. Especially the cartoon specials. I found it boring.
I just assumed, given the time, he was bused-in from Milwaukee.
Not sure how much play the Thurman Blevins story has been getting outside of Minnesoda. I’ll give a quick recap:
Cops get a call about a drunk guy wandering around shooting a gun into the air. A couple cops find a guy with a gin bottle and a gun. They chase him and shoot him. Local activists go nuts saying that the victim was unarmed. Today the cops released body cam video and it sure seems to back up the cops’ stories.
So that was all to point out how even in victory, the fucking cops can come out looking like total assholes.
Bob Kroll is the long time police union guy. Instead of just shutting the fuck up, he had a press conference and said that the cops “had no choice but to shoot Blevins”. And best yet:
If cops were smart, they’d never let a knothead like Kroll near a camera. But of course they aren’t so they fist bump Kroll for saying stupid shit like this.
I say shut it down.
In a White House press conference on Monday, President Trump took only two questions from U.S. reporters. But he made news with both of his answers.
Asked if his threat was serious to shut down the federal government if Congress does not approve his border security measures — which include the wall on the U.S.-Mexico border — Trump said it absolutely was.
“If we don’t get border security after many, many years of talk within the United States, I would have no problem doing a shutdown,” Trump said during a joint appearance with Italy’s prime minister. “It’s time we had proper border security.”
Trump, though, did not say there was any “red line,” and offered optimistically, “I’ll always leave room for negotiation.”
“I have no red line, unlike President Obama,” Trump said. “I just want great border security.”
Der Drumpenfuhrer strikes again.
https://twitter.com/giorgio_montana/status/1023804547813146624
I can’t tell if the comments are trolling, or anyone could be that stupid. She thinks Arizona is mostly African-American?
Proof positive of voter suppression from the dastardly GOP. If there weren’t voter ID laws, no Democrat would ever lose an election.
Oh…I can’t parody these people.
It is hommie.
Let’s say you’re someone who:
a) thinks finance, balance sheets, P&L projections, etc are the most deadly boring topics on the face of the Earth
b) wants to learn to invest, independent from 401ks, mutual funds, IRAs, etc, to prepare for the future
How would such a person learn about stocks, bonds, all that shit? Is there some kind of primer book that makes it interesting?
Buy the 10-DVD set of “Get Rich In Real Estate With No Money Down!” ?
No, money down!
No Money Down
“I’m Troy McClure. You may remember me from such educational films as ‘Lead Paint: Delicious But Deadly,’ and ‘Here Comes the Metric System!'”
Just ask Tom Vu!
I had this year’s ago and recall it being pretty good and not overly complicated. It’s going on 20 years old but the basics haven’t changed. This and a subscription to the WSJ would probably do it.
The Wall Street Journal Guide to Understanding Money and Investing
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0684869020/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_ab5xBbAA0B5C4
Looks like it’s in Kindle, too! https://www.amazon.com/Journal-Complete-Investing-Guidebook-Guidebooks-ebook/dp/B000S1LEQ0/
Thx!
This one goes into more detail but is a very good book.
Understanding Wall Street, Fifth Edition (Understanding Wall Street (Paperback))
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0071633227/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_vk5xBb43000C4
Check out The Bogelheads’ Guide to Investing. The whole Bogelheads philosophy is great, especially if you find such things boring:
https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Getting_started
Develop a workable plan
Invest early and often
Never bear too much or too little risk
Never try to time the market
Use index funds when possible
Keep costs low
Diversify
Minimize taxes
Keep it simple
Stay the course
Sweet! Danke!
I’ll note, too, that you can ask just about anything on the Bogleheads boards. There are a bunch of really knowledgeable, helpful people there. Sort of like this place, with a focus on finance and fewer links that will get you fired.
Second BogleHeads. I’ve enjoyed reading through their forum.
One of the funnier posts I read was someone warning against lowering your tax liability because then it will reduce your Social Security payout down the road. Advice like that is fortunately rare there.
Start with Vanguard.
You got linx?
There will be a ton of Vanguard linx w/ Bogleheads – they’re named after Jack Bogle, who founded Vanguard. e.g., https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Three-fund_portfolio#Vanguard_funds
I’d actually recommend this book as well after they learn the stock & bond stuff. Simply because Economics helps understand market drivers. It’s a pretty easy read and explain basic economic subjects: supply and demand, inflation, trade, etc. He’s a fairly balanced writer.
The Instant Economist: Everything You Need to Know About How the Economy Works
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0452297524/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_2m5xBbA722494
You know, the only problem with the term ‘MIL’ is that it’s just missing one letter that totally changes it to something else. It’s like a hand grenade with a loose pin.
She is not a MILILF.
I find finance boring, and only know what I have to know.
What I do find exciting: lowering my tax liability.
If you approach investing from that angle, it’s a lot more interesting.
My MIL just sold her house and deposited proceeds into a money market. I’m suppose to go meet a Finance guy with her in a few weeks. She needs mainly safety so I need to refresh myself on Muni’s, Corporate Bonds, TIPS, etc. Money Market is 1.5, if we can get her 3 without a lot of risk that would probably be a good in between for her. Not sure if that’s doable right now until rates go up more. I’ll probably just go listen to what he has to say before digging deeper. She has income and she’s probably going to lose it all to medicare when she has to go to full nursing care anyways.
Vanguard has funds for every risk profile. No need to pay some clown a commission.
Ill take a look. Thx.
I thought A Random Walk Down Wall Street was an excellent book.
Investing for Dummies.
No. I’m serious. Not bad.
And I have a Canadian Securities and Professional Financial Planning designation! And something else. Whatever.
if your goal is “because you want to invest”, then there’s one set of stuff which you might find worthwhile…. (some of which is mentioned below)
if the goal is “because you want to get a broader-understanding of capital markets and how they work and who the players are and how that whole world operates”…
..that’s an entirely different thing.
if its just ‘personal investing’, i’d recommend something like the ‘dummies’ book mentioned below…
if its the second thing, i’d recommend actually reading a Series 7 textbook all the way through.
i think the latter is actually a good idea for just about anyone. it helps to understand a lot of that shit.
For financial statements, with a decent hook: Financial Shenanigans . Then, once you’re hooked, and have developed an interest, The Analysis and Use of Financial Statements
Last week, my colleague Bret Stephens imagined a news article on the morning after President Trump’s re-election. Today, I imagine a different outcome.
Yes, it’s Trump who is undermining the integrity of the mainstream media.
Personally, I think the Washington Post did the fan-fiction better with the Hillary’s first 100 days in office pieces. The one where she cured cancer and AIDS with her budget deal, brokered peace in the Middle East, and finally succeeded in passing single payer healthcare. All while inspiring millions of little girls who could imagine marrying a politically talented, but morally bankrupt and rapey man who they would stand by no matter what not out of love, but because it furthered her own ambitions.
https://twitter.com/IsraeliPM/status/1023657347435126785
We need a Disney Princess that will overthrow Iran.
I’d nominate Mia Khalifa, but I hear she’s on the injured list due to recent events.
They’d put her in a gurney sack and toss her off of a tall building.
Plus she might touch one of those icky guns.
…Sticky guns
When Fatemeh’s legal have her message me with a pic. I might be able to help her out.
“This is totally normal”
https://twitter.com/edkrayewski/status/1023361567017132032
Wow.
Oh, and here is her article:
“What’s Jesse Singal’s Fucking Deal?”
https://jezebel.com/whats-jesse-singals-fucking-deal-1826930495
TW: Jezebel
Also this:
https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1023220508710588417
I can’t disagree. Fruit does not belong on pizza.
Tomato is a fruit. Don’t want tomato sauce on your pizza?
Ahhh. Monday is winding down as I sink into a happy glass of bourbon.
??
The only downside is that tomorrow is Tuesday. Office day at clients, more people in office. Bah humbug!
Russian prison guard MRE (dare I hope there’s pashtet?)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqyVhj3roSI
OK, guys, so we really do need more than one name for the dems new commie chicks. So, She Guevara is all locked up. What about this one?
Karla Marx?
Are they all Russian spys?
Well, she certainly does look a lot like a Russian spy, I mean uncanny like. So Mule Face should pay attention.
Kind of funny that the news is all about Trump and “the Russians” while the Dems are running actual Communists for US political offices. Of course it always Bizarro world on the left.
If the Russians were still full on commies, the democrats would love them. No wonder they are so mad. Bernie can’t even chill in real commieville anymore.
The Russians now have a fairly conservative government who are pairing with the Russian Orthodox Church. It’s no surprise they don’t like these Russians.
Rosa Luxemturd?
RBF
Resting Beria Face.
So I just had a leftist tell me today, after I called someone a commie, to ask me ‘Are we commies or socialists?, you keep using those terms like they are the same thing’. I said ‘They are the same thing’. So he says ‘No, they are not’. And I said ‘OK, explain the difference’. It was like Obama with no teleprompter, the guy was like no one ever challenged him on anything, ever. No wonder they want censorship.
“One is the people who cause all the problems when pretending to implement policies I like. I’m the other one, the good one!”
In (Marxist-Leninist theory) socialism was the first stage/phase after capitalism. Socialism would move the means of production into the hands of the workers and also gives us the dictatorship of the proletariat. This was a necessary phase in order to burn out or destroy the vestiges of materialistic man. From this stage would emerge pure communism, the truly classless society. In religious terms, socialism could be thought of as purgatory leading to paradise.
Of course, I doubt your friend had much of this in mind.
No matter what the stage, the end goal is the same. Communism, Socialism, Progressivism, Collectivism, Leftism, no matter what you want to call it, the end goal is exactly the same. So the left’s newest bullshit talking point is that ‘Democratic Socialism’ and ‘Socialism’ are not the same thing. When you have to keep trying to obscure and hide your ideology like that, it’s obvious that you are full of shit.
Of course there’s a difference. A communist is honest about how much of your stuff they want to take away.
Technically, one is the state owning everything and the other is the people owning everything. In practice there’s no difference.
Burger King done got woke, now will they go broke (video on the pink tax and how females have to pay more for stuff)?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7rtHmSfYDbs
If the dislike to like ratio holds true they will.
They ain’t woke. Obviously the pussy fries should be more, you know, since they are fried in pure pussy oil, but where they are unwoke is that a man should be required to pay the extra cost. If the woman paying doesn’t have a boyfriend or husband to
be robbed by the state do the noble thing, then obviously the patriarchy is holding her down and a random man should have to bear the cost, it’s only fair.Shit, I give it up.
” females have to pay more for stuff”
this would come as a surprise to life insurance people.
Also, things like female targeted razors, soaps, shampoos, and the like tend to be scented and visually more pleasing and generally of higher quality than the male oriented stuff. That stuff like that would cost more should be no surprise.
The “women are oppressed” narrative is fucking absurd. I’ve never been a feminist in any sense, but I’ve just recently caught on to how upside-down this whole idea is. It’s amazing and frightening that this blatant falsehood has, over the decades, become one of those things that “everybody knows”.
It requires homing in on a few metrics (which often have all kinds of dishonestly baked in, e.g. wage gap) and ignoring a ton of other metrics that contradict that premise.
It’s like if I said that white people are oppressed by black people because black people are overrepresented in professional sports, they are less likely to get busted for drunk driving, and they have lower rates of skin cancer.
Is that true about the DUI rates? Is it just lower rate of ownership?
I saw the DUI thing mentioned off-hand in a Quillette article.
https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/809956
That does seem to show that drunk driving is more prevalent among Hispanics and wypipo.
Related: Bonobos apparently has no interest in selling clothes to the vast majority of men. Were I a Bonobos shareholder, I would think that would be a poor strategy for a men’s clothing company.
Apparently it’s now a Walmart subsidiary – whose shares dropped 6% when they acquired Bonobos for $310MM.
Interesting that a company that markets to men would describe male oriented adjectives as scary. Let’s see how big the emasculated male customer base is.
It seems like an insane strategy to me. Maybe just an utterly insular marketing arm – they think that their cadre of NYC soyboys are representative of a much larger population.
If you’re going to bring food into the classroom, don’t make it tuna fish, and for the love of God don’t make it a melt.
Shrimp paste on toast
Sardines or GTFO.
Psh, I used to stink up a room pretty good with my anchovy sandwich (along with capicola, goat cheese, arugula, onions, sun-dried tomatoes, pickled serranos, and kalamata olives).
An effective lunch theft prevention strategy is to bring stuff that nobody else would possibly want.
That sounds delicious.
Good thought provoking reading
https://thefederalist.com/2018/07/30/interview-richard-epstein-on-classical-liberalism-the-administrative-state-and-free-speech/
“So I’m gonna end on this note ’cause I do have to run, but I just wanna make it very clear: Classical liberalism is not a system of absolutes. It’s a system of strong presumption, and the initial presumption is that when you’re dealing with ordinary human activities, it goes unregulated unless you can show a very strong reason why that regulation ought to take place. That list is not open-ended and endless. It starts with force. It goes on to deal with cases of fraud. It deals with cases of monopoly, all of which are resource-destroying. It certainly gets involved in things which aren’t very important in the grand political scheme, but guardianship for children, insane people and so forth. If you start to look narrowly at all the heads in which regulation is permissible under the classical liberal system, you then have to say, if you are a progressive, what do you want to ask, and how is it gonna make an improvement? You’ve got flat taxes, you got all this other stuff. The classical liberal has a more complicated system than the hard line libertarian — force and fraud, only force and fraud. They don’t deal with taxes. They don’t deal with monopoly. They don’t deal with eminent domain. Those guys are vulnerable, and the great danger of being a libertarian is once you knock that system open you say, “Well, there’s no alternative except to be a socialist.” Then we’re right right back in the progressive chute.
If you got classical liberalism in the middle, virtually every case that the Left uses to repudiate libertarianism is a case that’s covered by classical liberalism. They say, “Do you really wanna charge the streets and control access when the grid is much more efficiently run when paid for by taxes?” You can’t make that charge against the classical liberal. The classical liberal won’t say the same thing about turnpikes because the environments are completely different.”
I get his point. And I don’t necessarily think it’s invalid. My problem is that I think Epstein’s classical liberal recipe is one that gets destroyed by an endless series of compromises. If freedom and individual liberty are just presumptions and open to an endless series of “yeah, buts”, it’s hard to see where you don’t go from disallowing monopolies to creating an FTC to monitor potential monopolies to the government deciding which mergers it will allow and not allow to the government organizing an industrial policy. There’s never a line you simply don’t cross. Now multiply that by the endless other areas progressives want to run people’s lives. And, honestly, I think the problem we don’t have right now is an excess of personal liberty driving people to statism in disgust.