Happy Friday! Today is a good day to be Friday, because I just don’t have anymore work in me for a while. I saw the Brazil match. Crying after the second game of the opening stage? What the hell, Neymar? I was not expecting the Nigeria-Iceland result, and it looks bad for the Suisse right now.
Florida Man (or Woman) appears to have failed to wash their hands before preparing food at this summer camp. Also, you can tell Florida Man did the reporting, too. In other camp news, how fucking cool would it be to go off to Bible camp and come home on one of those big-ass transport helos?
Idiocracy is real.
Supreme Court comes to correct decision on cell-phone privacy. Still trying to figure out what the hell Gorsuch was trying to say/prove when he voted no to cell phone warrants.
Tesla watch. Whistleblower accuses Musk of punitive actions. If he’s not careful, Elon is gonna have to flee to Mars to avoid being indicted.
Have a song by the ugliest super group ever put together.
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Mmmmm – hot dog water
Is this an Epilogue to A Confederacy of Dunces?
+9 Inches of Pleasue
/Pleasure
Convincing your wife that that hotdog is 9″, too?
*looks around nervously*
…chocolate starfish…
Careful, son, Limp Bizkit references will get you banned.
Well then…
…you can take that cookie…
You know, there’s a perfect catbutt alternative for this particular thing…
If you really wanted to be mean, you would have had a picture of that man holding up a crepe.
Let’s not escalate things. I can track down the whole sex tape if I have to.
Oh God please no
You can’t force us to watch.
(I’m sure any attempt at an autoplay video won’t work on my Firefox/Linux box anyway.)
I don’t have to make you do anything Digory Kirke.
Did somebody say “sex tape?”
Just look for Fred Durst on your favorite x-tube/redhamster type site. Spoiler: you think it’s gonna be anal, and then it isn’t; don’t be disappointed.
*narrows gaze*
*closes eyes*
*clenches*
As it should be. Actually, I think that was one of the laws God commands to Moses in the Book of Levitcus.
…no one knows what it’s like….to be hated.
Good Lord, they covered Behind Blue Eyes? I have no memory of that, fortunately, but now I hate them even more.
Early 2000s was one horrific period in popular music.
And didn’t/couldn’t do the Bridge, Fags……………
If this doesn’t net me at least one attempt at my life…..nothing will.
Meh. It’s not as bad as Bob Dylan covering Jimi Hendrix’s cover of Bob Dylan’s All Along the Watchtower.
To be truly Idiocracy compliant, wouldn’t that have to be toilet water?
It’s what
plantssmart people crave!Nice of you to show up, Brett!
I’m just happy he’s ok, and that his Florida Man ways didn’t catch up to him. Also, the alligators are frisky this time of year.
And where the fuck have you been, young man?
Slovenia and northern Italy mostly, then came back and was immediately swamped with back work.
That’s not even a euphemism.
Can we expect a trip report?
“How I spent my summer…”?
Maybe. I brought a dslr and things were quite pretty. I need to churn through post-processing though. I did a lot of it quick and dirty on a tablet on the go. Also it’d be nice to give a shoutout to Saddle Skeddadle and their Slovenian partner Helia.
Hmmm. Guess I didn’t need incognito mode for those links. HM has wrecked me.
Sounds like a cool trip!
Yeah, six days cycling from the capital to the coast. It was an incredible experience although I’m trying to figure out if I’m just not photogenic or if my roommate/travel buddy is just TERRIBLE at framing shots (I’m hoping for the latter).
Usually when I travel I bring back coffee* for folks, but this time we went to the Piran salt marsh, which was protected by Venice for hundreds of years (they destroyed most of the regional competitors), so people got bags of Adriatic fleur de sel.
*People like knowing you thought of them while traveling but don’t like keychains and bookmarks much. Consumables are the way to go.
Perfect gifts!
Did you enjoy Venice?
Piran and the nearby Sečovlje Salt Pans are in Slovenia wedged right between Croatia and Italy. The area was part of Venice’s sphere of influence for quite some time.
We had a few days in Trieste before our flight out, and while trying to figure out the train situation to the airport I realized it was maybe 55e round trip to Venice so we did a day trip. I liked it better this time, and my roommate had never been. Last time I went it was the tail end of a month long course in Rome and I was low on funds and very burnt out.
Mrs. Tundra and I were there many years ago and really liked it. Water was high so it wasn’t stinky. We did a tour of Murano that was really cool and took a romantic gondola ride on her birthday.
Cool city.
Once the Spawn are through college, we are going to spend their inheritance on travel.
Yep. Consumables are the way to go. I like to bring wild rice from Minnesota.
If he’s not careful, Elon is gonna have to flee to Mars to avoid being indicted.
International Space Station. He can buy it and turn it into a hotel/casino.
Will there be space hookers?
And blackjack?
>>Roberts wrote that “an individual maintains a legitimate expectation of privacy in the record of his physical movements”
except for license plate scanners – totes cool
an individual maintains a legitimate expectation of privacy in the record of his physical movements
Those are your effects, dumbass.
The Confederatio Helvetica got the last laugh…
*waggles eyebrows at This Machine and Pan*
EDIT FAIRY DEMANDS CREDIT FOR RUINING JESSE’S JOKE!
*waffles eyebrows at This Machine and Pan*
Well, that certainly didn’t show up in this book
+1 Power Cube
Relevant
wtf
*takes off FK Partizan shirt, hangs head in shame*
Kindly put some shirt on.
Choking at any time is the old Yugoslav/Serbian national team strategy for dealing with having to actually play the fucking game!
The officiating certainly favored the Swiss.
Yeah, apparently wrestling people to the ground in the penalty box is no longer a foul.
That said, it was a sweet move which led to the winning goal.
Why didn’t they just pray that water away?
I never fucking understood the appeal of the traveling wilburys.
Two words: Roy Orbison.
Will there be space hookers?
What a silly question. Of course there will be space hookers. And space blow.
which leads to the proliferation of space AIDS
Space herpes comes first.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnJrenTkGGE
Hey hey, a forgotten classic.
The pimp is likely my favorite part: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8Msu2cXM8A
In space, no one can hear you scream at the pain in your diseased member.
Oh, why the hell NOT.
I know what that is without clicking.
So much better than Spaceballs, the low point of Mel Brook’s career.
Bite your tongue. Spaceballs is awesome.
Life Stinks was Mel’s low point.
Of course there will be space hookers. And space blow.
Mexican hookers? I was promised ethnic ass-sex. There are no borders in space…or boundaries. ///Ikeed-Ikeed
33-children-released-from-hospital-after-getting-sick-at-lake-placid-4-h-camp
First man: When I was young, I was a member of the 4-H club.
Second man: When I was young, I joined the Mile High Club, but I could never last four hours.
If we’re so bad now, what’s the left’s explanation as to why so many people still want to come to Trump’s Nazi America?
They’re #RESISTing, of course.
Soon Trump will be in chains, stopped by the army of illegal immigrants ?!??!
And then Joe Scarborough wakes up in a puddle.
And why would they let them subject themselves to exploitation and rape culture. I would think they would want to build a wall to keep the rest of the world safe from their own horrible decision to come here.
That’s my typical response to people who shit all over the US.
“If the USA is so irredeemably horrible and racist, with dirty air, dirty water, lousy healthcare and rampant discrimination, then why are people from all over the world climbing over one another to come here?”
Would
Dylan or Harrison?
Seconded.
If there were any more “would” in this group we’d put the timber industry out of business.
http://archive.is/ufHlI
Normally I’m not a posterior guy but sweet Jesus is 15 mouth watering.
Pretty sure 32 is a famous model but I can’t think of her name
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2345394/Miranda-Kerr-smouldering-stretches-model-racy-black-bikini.html
Put 33’s tits on 15’s body and you’ve really got something.
7,22,34
I would like 8, but I hate cleaning up after messes. She’s apparently very bad at painting.
88.
No question about it.
Would you buy a quart of their bathwater?
Shoot, I’d bounce a basketball through a minefield just to smell where they peed.
Eat the corn from their shit just to see where it came from?
What, no votes for #15? Surf her all day long.
Orgy.
Kansas Man driving along with no particular place to go.
Nice try, Kansas Man, but unless the car was running, you’re still a ways behind Texas Man.
The polish terrorist who tried to blow up a bus?
Burnt his lips on the tail-pipe.
He went to the point of know return.
“”no particular place to go.””
I have always interpreted the lyrics of that song to be about a man desperately looking for a rest stop
how fucking cool would it be to go off to Bible camp and come home on one of those big-ass transport helos?
I went to SERE training with the Air Force (which is a lot like going to bible camp) and got to go home in a Shit-hook!
It was way cool! Air Force training had some moments of coolness as well. But not many.
The biggest bible thumper in my basic training flight was ironically the guy that needed anger management the most.
“GODDAMN IT. CAN YOU SONS OF BITCHES QUIET DOWN?! I’M TRYING TO READ MY FUCKING BIBLE.”
I don’t know if they still do this at Parris Island, but we had “lay readers” who would say a prayer before lights out. One Catholic, one Protestant. There weren’t many of us Catholics and none of us were terribly devout, I don’t think, so the only guy who volunteered for the job got it. He was not particularly bright and routinely cursed during his prayers.
Later, we found out the guy wasn’t even actually Catholic. He just said he was because after the first week he noticed that Catholic services ran into our platoon’s lunch time, so we were allowed to march ourselves to chow. The platoon would already be back to the barracks, and with no DIs we could take our time and eat a nice leisurely lunch for once.
Yeah, for similar reasons we had an unusually high percentage of 7th Day Adventists in our flight.
I’M TRYING TO READ MY FUCKING BIBLE.
Imagine what a rage monkey the guy could’ve been if he hadn’t got religion.
We do a Bible camp near the Mountain Phase of Ranger School – one of the drop zones is a pasture that’s very close. It’s a pretty regular occurrence to see Blackhawks circling all day, doing parachute drops.
Also, Bill Shakespeare said it so well, “What’s in a name” ?
Beer should plead guilty for most of the criminal acts I’ve committed in my life.
I had an intern with the last name Beer. For being a college kid, his Father (an engineer at a local paper mill) was quite a bit older, nearing what you would consider grand-father territory. Interesting family history- they ended up in Cincinnati, via Argentina, after his Dad’s family left Germany….
You know what other Germans went to Argentina?
The 1978 World Cup squad?
Aldi ?
Graf Spee?
I have no idea why the REAL tragedies are never covered.
Why oh why couldn’t it have been the illegal immigrant children’s detention facilities collapsing instead? WHY!?
Whilst at a local wine festival, a young lady serving the thirsty crowd dropped a glass and it broke. The crowd grew hush for a moment, and a jolly, older fellow right next me to exclaimed quite loudly “I’d rather a church burned!” The silence vanished into a gale of laughter, and even the poor young woman smiled.
At least this time it didn’t burn.
You could see flames more than 30 miles away.
Former anti-GMO activist tells the truth, but wrong about environmentalist motivations:
So what is it about GMOs that made environmentalists so wary in the first place? The real objection, I suspect, has always been a deeper philosophical one, about human beings “messing with nature” in new and uncertain ways. The idea of technological hubris has long been a concern of the Green movement, also evident in the longstanding and equally misguided campaign against nuclear power.
These reflexes explain why environmentalism is often not the progressive force that it claims to be. Holding a progressive worldview means believing in the possibility of positive change, recognizing past improvements and seeing the potential of scientific and technological innovation to solve humanity’s most pressing problems. In their campaign against GMOs, environmentalists have flirted with reactionary politics, aiming to block innovation and to protect traditional agricultural methods in the service of often-romanticized notions of vanished rural idylls.
The coming world of 10 billion people demands a more clear-headed and genuinely progressive approach. The great challenge will be to produce enough food for this tremendous surge in population while also protecting enough wilderness areas to maintain some measure of the planet’s fast-depleting biodiversity. We simply cannot feed the high-consuming population of the future using the low-productivity methods of the past.
Science has already helped humanity to nearly abolish the specter of famine. If it is not to reappear in decades to come, in tandem with ecological collapse, we must allow scientists to keep doing their jobs. They shouldn’t be hindered by those who, having already filled their bellies, have the luxury to indulge in righteous, ill-informed campaigns against promising new food technologies.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/confession-of-an-anti-gmo-activist-1529679465?mod=hp_featst_pos1
Genocide?
Soylent Green
Here’s what I don’t understand: grapevines don’t produce viable seeds. Corn is not teosinte. There are no wild cows. Tomatoes resemble nothing in nature. Wheat is not emmer. Every goddam food we eat (except maybe wild mushrooms) is genetically modified by humans. So really, the objection is “foods modified using methods developed since Obama was born.”
There are no wild cows.
I mean, except for the secret herd of auruch-cousins in England that we’re not supposed to know about
Protestors go to Nielsen’s home.
http://www.whitehousedossier.com/2018/06/22/kirstjen-nielsen-under-siege/#comments
Amazing. Just amazing.
Imagine of ‘alt-right’ protestors went to an Obama official’s home.
I wonder if they’re going to take it up a notch in their outrage machine because this is pretty bad stuff.
The left has a significant number of otherwise unemployable people who have made politics their passion. They live for this shit and that makes them dangerous
Unbelievable: this is how really bad things happen. Some drunk idiot throws a rock through a window and hits someone in the head. Or some nervous cop guarding the house thinks they hear a gunshot from the crowd…
….Joe Biden steps out and fires his shotgun…
In other news, I’m really surprised they’re still operating.
If you’re looking for a hookup in July, the Northwest might be the place to go.
The wives are all cheating on their soyboys.
How about Portland a week from now?
Wasn’t that operation exposed as bullshit in that data breach? Almost all the members were men, right?
Yes. I thought they went out of business. Maybe they were just laying low and hoping everyone would forget about that.
I thought that too.
I would bet without having Craigslist or Backpages any longer, AshleyMadison saw a sweet uptick in memberships.
Oh, sweet, sweet, irony.
What if we all walked around with our vices tattooed on our heads? I guess mine would be a bottle of booze, a joint, and probably a picture of my cock for all the poor choices I’ve made as a result.
posted elsewhere:
I want big gun that makes big bang
*runs to Johannesburg Walmart*
I’m back. Did you miss me?*
We had a great time on our tour of the midwest and Mississippi valley but one of the highlights was the visit with SP and OMWC. They are delightful people and we spent several hours visiting like we were old friends over drinks and dinner. She recognized me by my self-description (“lawn gnome”) when we walked in the door. The evening was way too short.
A few other events were also memorable. The Railroad museum in Green Bay was fun, the USS Alabama in Mobile was very cool (they need work on their tour, though) but the best, to me, was the motorsport museum in Birmingham. Their collection is impressive and I was able to find nearly every model of motorcycle that I’ve owned.
Mammoth Cave was a bit of a disappointment (Carlsbad is better).
… Hobbit
*No, because I often lurk, seldom post.
The museum at Barber in AMAZING. Way more than you can take in during a day.
Only about half of their stuff is on display at any time. The guy I talked to said that they upgrade things about once a month.
BH
The USS Alabama was really cool. Did you go through the US sub while you were there?
Yes, I did. There is another one in San Fransisco (USS Pampanito?) that is also very cool. Also, I did EMP testing on most of the aircraft on display inside of the hangar.
Mammoth Cave was a bit of a disappointment
Mammoth is so big, it can be a challenge to find the right tour.
I’ve posted before about the Wild Cave, but that requires good health and a lot of effort.
Also, Mrs. Hobbit is now a “Packer Backer” after our visit to Lambeau Field. We were going to buy some cheesehead hats but they wanted $25 for them.
BH
I’ve been to the USS Alabama several times and I didn’t even know there was a tour. We just wandered around the ship.
They hand you a sheet of paper with the descriptions of various spots. You are supposed to follow in numerical order but often paths cross or backtrack.
It was a delight for us, truly. And we got an article out of the deal!
I was disappointed to find out I was older than you…
What did you expect? According to wikipedia, hobbits only live to be 100.
I was disappointed to find out I was older than you
Well, you are the Old Man. . .
BH
White House Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney describing the need for government reform at a Thursday meeting of the President’s cabinet:
If you make a cheese pizza, it’s governed by the Food and Drug Administration. If you put a pepperoni on it, that’s governed by the USDA. If you have a chicken, it’s governed by the USDA. If that chicken lays an egg, it’s governed by the FDA. But if you break the egg and make it into an omelet, that is now covered again by the USDA.
If you have an open-face roast beef sandwich, that’s one or the other. But if you put the bread on top of it, it’s the other one. A hot dog — the hot dog meat is governed by one. You put it in a bun, it’s governed by the other. One of my favorites: If you have a saltwater fish — you have a salmon, and it’s in the ocean, it’s governed by the Department of Commerce. Once it swims up river, it’s governed by the Department of the Interior. And to get there, it has to go up a fish ladder governed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers…
A long time ago, when I was 15 years old, I worked in a freezer for a guy that made frozen pizzas… Put yourself in that guy’s business. And one day he’s making cheese pizzas, and in the afternoon, he’s going to make pepperoni. He’s got an entirely different federal agency to deal with, an entirely different process…
We talked about… the Department of Education and the Department of Labor being merged. We think that makes tremendous sense because what are they both doing? They’re doing the same thing. They’re trying to get people ready for the workforce. Sometimes that’s education, sometimes it’s vocational training. But we’re all doing the same thing, so why not put them in the same place?… We don’t even know how many job training programs we have. Some people think it’s 40, some people think it’s 46, some people think it’s 47.
Actually, it’s 57 job training programs.
One for each state?
They’re trying to get people ready for the workforce.
So people are products of an assembly line, and government there is there to get them ready? Screw you pal.
As much as combining departments sounds good, the real problem is the acceptance of excessive government. It’s not the role of the federal government to get people ready for bed, let alone working. The only jobs training programs the feds should be running are the military service academies & training programs.
Commander! Thanks for the well wishes in the other thread. Start-to-finish is likely gonna take a couple years, but I’m staying focused on the 10m target for now. Hope you’re crushing your own fitness goals.
Just saw that and left a meandering reminiscing. I’m crushing beer cans more than fitness goals, but y’all are an inspiration to me.
The only jobs training programs the feds should be running are the military service academies & training programs.
Shoot, even the service academies might be unnecessary given the number of ROTC grads that get churned out every year. If the DoD got drastically downsized, though, I can see the academies still fulfilling the active duty officer training role if the ROTC programs saw a similar drawdown.
Yeah, or become more of a Sandhurst style finishing school.
And it looks like we’ll be getting another service academy – Starfleet.
Another reason not to create another armed service.
As I read that, I already envisioned the army of “fact checkers” at every Lefty media outlet churning out some drivel about how some detail of that is not technically true and rating it “pants on fire” or “extremely false”, and therefore the whole idea of reducing the size of government or even just streamlining it is completely bunk.
Sweet Jesus, Elon must be retarded. To email with the former employee the day after you file a lawsuit?
His attorneys must be thrilled.
By all accounts he’s a narcissist and a douche. Not a good combo.
Narcissists and douches built this site, yo
Whoah horsey
I mean, he’s not wrong, but he also needs to be bopped on the nose for saying it out loud.
HA. You got Dursted too!
I am NOT a narcissist!
*stomps foot in a huff*
The mutilation of my comment speaks for itself!
What’s really bad is that the image *improves* your comment.
I want to disagree. And yet, the evidence.
I appreciate that Los Doyers is always available to be the fall guy.
The nice thing is that his “girl” friend is also the fall guy.
Tundra! Saw your reply in the fitness thread. Good luck with the MTI programming, hope you find something that gets you where you wanna be fitness-wise. Rob Shaul doesn’t fuck around but I think the results are worth the effort.
Hey TM! Yep, saw your reply. Most of his programs are geared toward guys like you, but it looks like he’s trying to broaden the market to include old men with hockey delusions!
I’m excited for you, man. Don’t forget to check in once in awhile!
Lol, he’s the Trump of automobiles
All I can say is that article has the most kentucky man father daughter photo ever
TexasMan™ watches the South Park where Randy Marsh is Lorde, trys that bit as Taylor Swift.
He looks just like Taylor Swift, are we sure he isn’t?
It’s a great day for shitlords in Canada.
Charges dropped against rural Alberta homeowner accused of shooting trespasser
Gospodin Zagloba! Didn’t know you came from a Chetnik family, that’s pretty nifty. Had the flag hanging in my living room before I moved, always got lots of comments on it. Shame about the match today but fuck it, no real surprises.
No, Partizan family. Grandad had enough shit and joined up at 16 (he wanted to earlier, but they wouldn’t let him), then spent 3 years shooting at Germans, Chetniks and Ustashe.
Ironically, we were not FK Partizan family – Zvezda was our team. And yes, I got to watch the glorious 1990 Euro Championship win, just before everything went to shit.
Ah, goddamn. Not bad! That’s one heck of a legacy to inherit.
Speaking of his legacy, I hope my cousin got to keep Grandad’s Carcano and Kar98. I was already out of the country when he died, and getting guns into Canada is epically hard.
Now I wish I tried, don’t know how I would keep or transport it, but it’d be neat to know it’s safe. I mean, I was the Designated Favored Grandchild after all…
I would be amazed that ‘pointing a firearm’ is it’s own charge, but I suppose it’s similar to ‘brandishing’ here. Then again, you do have “mischief” in your Section 430.
That always makes me giggle.
How about Hoopla? or Gamboling?
Sup TRES!
Hey Yu-Fizzle!
Tall Cans sounds even better with SnoopD and Doggy Fizzle Televizzle!
I’m starting to think you two were separated at birth…
They’re certainly from the same linguistic family.
I’m from SW Ohio where the V stands for velveeta.
I speak Fluent White Trash…
/TALL CANS TRES!
If that ain’t country, I’ll kiss your ass.
They’re both Tulpa….
When your company just hired Obama and Rice, you might want to police your language to keep your job.
https://deadline.com/2018/06/jonathan-friedland-out-as-netflix-communications-chief-following-insensitive-comments-1202415977/
…”used the ultimate derogatory term for African-Americans.” Meaning, of course, “nigger” AKA :the “N word”. Not really true, in my experience. For black males the ultimate insult is probably “boy”. Used back in the day to explicitly emasculate black males. A 10-year-old white girl or boy would say to an adult black male “hey, Boy! come here” and say it with a sneer. Talk about insulting. Nigger just means you’re black and less than white. Boy means you’re not even a man.
Hey, thanks, Pan Zagloba for giving my podcast a review on iTunes. Pretty damn sweet to wake up to. Or if it was another Glib, then thanks to you. Hard to tell. My co-host shook me awake all excited about it.
Another glib, sadly 🙁
I’m shit at reviewing should really get to it!
I mean, are you in iTunes now? Can I give a review to url-ed podcast?
Hmm. Then I feel bad for whoever it was. Yeah, itunes link is https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/a-gal-walks-into-a-comic-shop/id1401505295?mt=2
It’s being super-weird, I rate it but it doesn’t seem to stick. May have to try from desktop at home.
Musk is such a douche. He makes expensive coal fired golf carts. Also, they don’t work. I guess the saying is don’t hate the player hate the game, but I hate fucking both the player and game. Has everyone gone full retard? We fine VW for making a good product and throw billions at a fucking snake oil salesman?
FFS
Someone* recently reminded me of this piece by Freddie DeBoer, criticizing a variety of modern tendencies of the left
(*i think it was Jesse Singal, after getting dragged for daring to write a ginormously long piece about “trannies who stop being trans”, which i mentioned a few days ago)
I recommend reading it (or rereading it if you’ve seen it before); even tho his focus is mostly ‘trying to ‘fix’ the Left’, the same issues apply in many ways w/ problems libertarians/libertarianism has always had, tho probably less-so than most.
The way he addresses the subject is via “the iron law of institutions”; to wit:
I’ve always seen the same thing as being a broader, social-phenomenon rather than being exclusive to ‘institutions’; but i suppose if you use very-weak definitions, where all ‘social groups’ are ‘institutions’ of a sort, then its more or less the same thing.
the framework i have i think is more like”social-capital” and how people acquire/expand it in social-media marketplaces.
both are basically theories of “Social Status”. Its a topic that seems to be very little explored, but enormously relevant to the way things work these days.
You mendacious, unspeakable, scummy, lying, vile cunt! They were all for freedom of their own speech and fuck the bourgeois.
Of all the things, you focus on class? Jesus Christ, we need Mattis to go full Admiral Colchak.
And this is a “reasonable” leftist?!
Ah. Knew them, lived with them, but for grace of Ante Markovic would have been one of them. Shoot the fucker and dump him in a pit. It’s the only way to be sure. Forget REEEEing morons. Forget SJWs and Antifa. This isn’t a guy who organizes gulags and mass shootings. He’s the one who provides logistics and expresses regret that such actions are necessary.
You mendacious, unspeakable, scummy, lying, vile cunt! They were all for freedom of their own speech and fuck the bourgeois.
Budd Schulberg (Oscar-winning screenwriter of On the Waterfront) said pretty much the same thing after he named Communists. They were all for free speech — until he engaged in speech they didn’t like.
Sorry, Gilmore, I know you like him and find him reasonable.
I do, and he is.
That his core-politics are deeply “wrongity-wrong” at root doesn’t particularly bother me.
His argument is well-articulated and is basically same observation other smart-people have made about effect of social-media dynamics on real institutions. I think he also provides value for non-lefties, offering a window into dynamics which play out similarly within parallel spaces
(e.g. the way Trump has basically steamrolled and shattered the legacy GOP and turned it into a populist/nationalist sort of umbrella group with its own odd in-group fractiousness)
But that’s the thing – his argument is merely “my faction needs to be in charge” done by someone who pretends he doesn’t understand Marxist factionalism. His faction tried to take over, failed, and now he’s butthurt about it – or does he not comprehend how much damage Full Sanders does to Democratic Party, and that’s why the apparatus shut him down?
It doesn’t help that he keeps switching from an actual organization (Democratic Party and DNC) to amorphous “left” and back, with a swift rhetorical trick (“If you think of radical left as an institution” – but it’s not – there is nothing institutional about it) to tie in two disparate things.
Do Marxist actually no longer study Eastern European Communist Parties? Because that’s a blueprint of how you create a movement you want, and all he lists was a feature of said parties, yet didn’t stop them from succeeding. It was called Democratic Centralism: Faction all you like, vote, delegate, but once Central Committee makes a decision, everyone sticks by it. Including you, Freddie. Even if Bernie got dicked.
Not really. he’s examining the reasons why his specific appeals so often fail, and why some of the worst instincts of his own peers often win the day (but tank the overall left-movement)
iow, not “reasons why he should be in charge”; but “reasons why the radical left keeps failing at its own pretended aims”
Yeah, i think that’s right. He starts with a literal notion of ‘institutions’ (parties, and groups supporting specific candidates within that party-framework); but then devolves to a weaker notion, which is more an amorphous umbrella which includes some writers, some publications, some academics, and ‘the nascent DSA’
but i think you’re fixating on what you think his ‘goal’ is, rather than what is his (imo, accurate) analysis of the ‘why’ the social-groups he is a part of keeps failing to make any headway.
iow, i don’t think the superficial political details are the interesting part
Starting with the beginning of the article: his faction wanted influence in the Democratic Party. They failed to obtain it, and then decided that they won’t work for the candidate who beat theirs. Somehow, this is the fault of the institution, which didn’t give them influence.
But, I argue, institution worked as it was designed to. It maintained its influence with important people (donors, journos, corporate elite) that Freddie’s boy Bernie threatened. The party membership (discount super-delegates) rejected the candidate. In turn, Freddie claims, his people left in a huff – and this is Party’s fault. My disagreement with the first part is this – had the Democrats given him what he wanted, their Party would be less powerful today. Leftist movement, as he envisions it, might not be – but the Party would have been damaged.
Once he dispenses with that, now we’re dealing with umbrella of various vaguely defined…not even organizations. A plurality of tactics is probably the best term. You can strongly believe the popular tactics are bad (I’d agree, smart Marxists get more done). But that’s not because Popular People Want Status, while Freddie Thinks Of Deep Issues – it’s because his faction is failing to convince the other ones to adopt their tactics. Or, I’m betting, because the other side will fire back with “we’ve been trying it your way for ten/twenty/thirty/forty years and failing. We need to go back to what we did in 60s”.
Maybe the difference is that to him, his ideas are blindingly self-evident, while I see them as something US population has been rejecting since FDR made New Deal to head off actual Socialists.
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honestly, i think you’re missing the point of the piece entirely.
he gives the example of the dems rejecting the ‘radical left’ sanders types as an illustration of the Iron Law at work.
then he gives examples of the ‘radical left’ sanders-types shooting themselves in the foot… because of the Iron law at work.
that’s his thesis, and he then goes on to look at how “status-seeking ends up undermining shared goals” in myriad ways.
I basically think your entire first paragraph above misreads him completely. The piece isn’t some tactical analysis of ‘how should we win elections in the future’, or ‘wah wah give us power’;
its more a reflection on psychological truths about “how groups work”. you seem caught up in some political argument i don’t think he even made.
That thought process dovetails nicely with my personal observations of many organizations – businesses, clubs, churches, etc. So often the organizational infighting is based on personalities and power trips, regardless of the effect on the ultimate mission of the organization, as members jockey for social status. Quite frankly, it’s one of the things that turned me away from organized religion. The constant battles for status, cliques, and the like that happen in any grouping of people are offputting to me.
Something tells me there’s some connection between the “iron law” and “Conquest’s 2nd law”
(*there’s a very clear connection between the “iron law” and his 3rd law – “assume that it is controlled by a cabal of its enemies.”)
iow, the reasons “all organizations not explicitly right, become left-wing” is because organizations always turn into vehicles of status-aggrandizement; and what sort of posture wins more personal moral-virtue points? “low taxes and small govt?” or “FREE STUFF FOR THE POORS”. the former makes you a penny-pinching bureaucrat, while the latter brings you closer to *sainthood*
(side note: this just made me think, “I wonder if the Niskanen center was actually an experiment in “how fast can we prove Conquest’s 2nd law”)
I love my church! After small group last night, my pastor, another group member (and a former pastor) and I went out for a night of drinking at the local brewery. For all the tea totalling that happens in Christian laity, most of the pastors, deacons, and friars I know enjoy beer and hard liquor.
It helps that we were all formerly atheists/agnostics, so we don’t have the cultural hangups that many of the cradle to grave Christians have.
For all the tea totalling that happens in Christian laity,…
Out of curiosity, what denomination? Because you know what you find with every four Catholics?
A fifth!
/try the waitress and tip the veal
The one I know.
What’s the difference between Baptists and Catholics? Catholics say hi to each other in the liquor store.
Why do you invite *two* Baptists to go fishing?
’cause if you just invite one he’ll drink all your beer.
Why don’t Baptists have sex standing up?
They are afraid someone will see them and think they are dancing.
Bible church…. essentially Baptist lite.
I’ve drank with pastors in Baptist churches, priests in the Catholic church, pastors in Lutheran churches, etc. Usually they’re hush-hush about it, not because they’re embarrassed, but because they don’t want to offend the tightasses. However, I did attend a pretty awesome party at a Catholic monastery.
I started at a Jesuit University that had a pub on campus!
This concept of teetotalling is very foreign to us ex-Catholics.
And the monks make some good beer. There’s a legend that during the middle ages, the monks wanted permission to drink beer during times of fasting. So they sent a barrel of beer to the pope to make a decision… in the middle of summer. By the time the beer made it to the pope, it had (of course) spoiled. The story goes that the pope tried a sip of it, and said, “If the monks want to drink this foul beverage, let them.”
Heh, back in grad school, I used to spend every Sunday watching football and smoking dope with a Methodist minister.
It’s Friday, and you know what that means!!
Bad news dump – Tesla edition!
Yeah, who the hell needs nationwide distribution and a gazillion walk ins. Idiots.
Who would have guessed that a $2.6 billion acquisition of a failed company would drag the acquirer down with it?
Except everybody who has ever run a business.
Make up losses in volume seems to be the Tesla strategy.
The car thing might have been manageable on its own. Maybe. Buying that piece of shit solar company, which by the way he was Chairman of the board and had a bunch of family members involved, was sheer stupidity.
It’s almost as though his business model is to branch into any endeavor that gets massive government subsidies. I half expect to find out he’s bought 20,000 acres of corn field in Iowa next.
Well, today I metaphorically cut a check that paid off the last of our credit card debt! With that, 6 months of unemployment and a cross-country move have been paid off! Now on to 2 cars (should be done by next March) and a mountain of student loans (it’ll be a few years until that gets paid off).
I’m half tempted to write an article about all of this, but I’m a bit hesitant about giving out the details required to make the story compelling. It would probably be boring and off-topic.
Nice job. Digging out of a financial hole is a great accomplishment!
Congratulations!
Keep it up! Freedom awaits!
🙂
debt-free screams are for losers
/broke-ass dude who has no idea how his kids will go to college or how he will retire with dignity
1. Take out unusually large life-insurance policies on your children
2. Wait a few years.
3. ?????
4. Profit!
My retirement plan is to walk naked into the woods with steaks taped to me, and be devoured by wolves.
These euphemisms!
I love those kinds of stories. Back in the day, I subscribed to the Tightwad Gazette. Go for it!
I don’t know. If you gave details about the serial killing you did along the way, it would be probably be fun to read.
Congrats
Oh, and don’t worry none Chicago. Musk’s proven track record in the successful completion of large-scale civil engineering projects means that downtown-to-airport pneumatic tube will work out just fine.
It’s a proven technology
Yes it is – at the teller-to-drive thru window level.
Something new from Lagunitas, Citrusinensis Pale Ale, Got the Blood Orange thing going on, not to Hoppy for all you anti IPA peeps, and at 7.2% pretty light for Me
https://photos.app.goo.gl/adYqw9N2NBdaWMz39
I accidentally fumbled a bottle of that onto the front porch last night and shattered it. I’m still trying to get the glass shards out of my tongue.
Tasty eh?
I read the riddle on the Bottle and called the number at the end of it….. Lagunitas Corporate HQ, nice people, didn’t answer the riddle though,
OT: I see we’ve got a Catholicism discussion going on up there, and there’s something I’ve always wondered…
Is there any kind of process for opposing a pope who is doing and saying things like, well, what the current pope is doing and saying? If he’s the head official of the religion and said to be chosen by God himself, are ordinary Catholics able to dissent in any way? Is there a process for removing a pope who is doing an unsatisfactory job?
You can elect another pope and let the popes fight to the death.
Dark. I was just going to have a cardinal stab him in the night, or slip something in his drink.
I believe it’s usually murder, but I was raised Foursquare, so I could be wrong.
Antipope would be my suggestion.
You don’t need a Holy Roman Emperor, but it helps – see if you can work something out with Merkel.
See: Luther, Martin.
If he’s the head official of the religion and said to be chosen by God himself, are ordinary Catholics able to dissent in any way?
To answer a bit more seriously (although the fight to the death thing isn’t unprecedented, if a bit metaphorical), devout Catholics would point out that 1) a vast majority of what the pope says is not ex cathedra (infallible), so 99.999% of the time he’s just a very well-studied person who is saying stupid things while in a position of authority; and 2) sometimes poor leadership is the will of God, because it exposes weaknesses in the church to be fixed by the next pope.
” majority of what the pope says is not ex cathedra ”
I’ve got zero skin in this game, but that sounds like a first cousin to “they’re doing socialism wrong in Venezuela”
It’s important in the theological sense of what the pope is. If the pope is 100% infallible all of the time, then everything out of this mouth is on par (in the eyes of Catholics) with Scripture. A commie pope in that situation means a commie Catholic church, take it or leave it.
If the pope is only infallible in certain specific circumstances (and I’m not an expert on papal infallibility, so I can’t recite those circs off the top of my head) then having a pope go off the rails is concerning, but it doesn’t theologically cripple the church. A commie pope means that the Catholic church has some serious leadership issues, but it doesn’t force the Catholic church to become commie themselves.
Right: I got all that; go in peace.
“See: Luther, Martin.” I was raised Primitive Baptist, the libertarians of the Baptist “movement.” I was raised to enjoy watching any autocrat roast, and a primary straw man I inherited was the infallible pope idea: it’s fun because you can crucify Catholicism for all terrible things popes have done…that’s primo hillbilly fun playing with collectives.
There is no Primitive Baptist structure or even organization; the wiki sources are even threadbare, unhelpful, and shaky. But, if we (we, ha: I’m more than lapsed) had two bumper stickers in our gift shop (if we had a gift shop), one would read “Primitive Baptists: we’ll was your feet but we won’t touch your snake” and the other would just be a generic “fuck the Pope.” There might even be “fuck the governor” or “fuck the mayor.” Primitives don’t go in for structure.
Catholic arguments about papal infallibility are… odd. It basically boils down to “sure, he’s infallible, as long as he’s saying things consistent with doctrine, and only in certain situations that are basically never encountered”. Which essentially makes papal infallibility meaningless. As far as I can tell, it seems like the whole concept was invented late in the Counter-Reformation to poke Protestants with, but which Catholics themselves were completely unaffected by.
Ugh. Not my best use of grammar. I reworded the last sentence and didn’t carry through to the other clause.
I agree. It’s a strange concept. Frankly, the idea of a pope is a strange concept itself. I’ve never understood the theology behind it. The Scriptural support, even in the deutero-canonical books, is razor thin, and most Catholic theologians then fall into “the Holy Spirit guided the church” into establishing* the papacy.
*they’d argue that the papacy was established in Peter
*shrugs*
I just quit the Church.
Commie Pope, you’re fired!!
I gave up my Catholicism for Lent and never took the habit back.
I bet you’d look good in a habit.
Ask Henry II.
Update on the whole job situation:
A couple of posts ago, I wrote about how I put in my two weeks and my boss was okay with it but the lawyer who we share a suite with (and I have become good friends with) sent this email that basically accused of being disloyal to my boss (who is a good friend of mine and got me the job). The lawyer friend and I went out last night to have a couple of drinks and was able to patch things up. But as the lawyer friend got drunker, it was revealed to me that my friend (the boss) put on this huge front of being okay with me leaving and when I left the office he went into the lawyer’s office and apparently went on this rant about how betrayed he felt and how he tried to help me succeed in my career. And also thought that I whenever I asked for a day off (which was rare) I was using that time to go on interviews. He then discussed with the lawyer friend that he thought that my wife put me up to this because I could never be so disloylal without someone whispering in my ear.
Anyway, my friend was pissed that I didn’t tell him before putting in my two weeks that I was looking for a new job and that I felt as though the firm wasn’t a good fit for me. It’s like, who in their right mind would tell their boss even if their boss is their friend that they are currently looking for a new job? I sent him this really nice 25 year DOP Balsamic Vinegar from Italy ( he loves that shit) as a way of saying thank and have yet to even get a text to say thanks for the gift. This morning as I still in my hungover stupor, realized that if he’s gonna be peeved at me, then so be it because I have look forward and life is good. Not gonna let someone’s bullshit anger or their fragile ego make me feel bad for making the right choice.
Not gonna let someone’s bullshit anger or their fragile ego make me feel bad for making the right choice.
Bingo.
BTW, now that you’re in Barrington, I get to curse you twice a day on my commute. What a fucking mess that road is.
Whenever I do come to Barrington, I always take Roselle Road. Barrington Road is terrible.
That’s exactly the spirit.
He’s not upset because you legitimately wronged him, he’s upset because he’s choosing to be a shithead about a perfectly normal and understandable career move. Everyone who holds a job should understand that loyalty is not what pays the mortgage or feeds the family. The appropriate and professional thing for him to do would be to say they’re sorry to see you go and wish you best of luck. It sounds like he’s being the employer equivalent of the employee who cusses out the boss and storms off the job.
You did the right thing, Look to your own Self preservation always, You can’t feed your Family if you can’t advance, and Avoid Unethical Employers.
Hell ,just hang out your own shingle if you can
And also thought that I whenever I asked for a day off (which was rare) I was using that time to go on interviews. He then discussed with the lawyer friend that he thought that my wife put me up to this because I could never be so disloylal without someone whispering in my ear.
This sounds an awful lot like how a paranoid girlfriend acts when you go out for a night with the guys.
Be careful of that lawyer. I used to spend a lot of time hanging out in a gun shop. A bunch of old men sitting around telling bullshit stories and drinking coffee. I would turn my phone ringer off while I was there. If anyone but my wife would call I wouldn’t answer. Hell, it was only two blocks from my wife’s office. Occasionally an acquaintance would call and get no answer. then they would call my wife and be only a little concerned that they couldn’t find me, did she know where I was. Then my wife would call and I would answer. Where am I? I am at the gunshop, why, do you need something? No but X called and seemed concerned. I figured you were at the gunshop. Ok.
Then X would call and I would answer. ‘Oh my god I called your wife and she seems very upset that no one knows where you are!’ X would say. Then X would call my wife and tell her that I seemed miffed that she was looking for me not knowing that she and I had already spoken.
After the second one of those episodes I figured out (yeah, I’m slow) that X was doing that on purpose. Call one and then the other relaying how upset the other was. Deliberately trying to stir shit in my marriage, trying to set us against each other. And for what? Just a game X liked to play. Sick ass compulsion to manipulate people like throwing water on two cats to get them to fight and then sit back and laugh.
Sick shit.
That is the first thing that popped in my head when you told that story. Watch your back. they might be looking for some payback even though you did the right thing. I smell a rat and my radar aint too shabby. Stay away from those two fuckers. Mind your marriage and your new job. those guys can live without you.
Word of warning.
“I used to spend a lot of time hanging out in a gun shop.”
Shocking.
Oooo, that’s smooth balsamic. I had 50 year once.
Also, maybe it’s the bourbon, but your pal is a snowflake.
It’s some good shit. The 25 year DOP Modena is nearly 200 dollars but it’s so worth it.
Fuck him.
Good luck and kick ass.
To borrow from John Cleese: how he took it doesn’t enter into it.
Even if he’s a prince, talent is a market. He’s a buyer; you’re a seller. Everyone has to find their way: they enjoy the good times and they eat their mistakes. It’s an arm’s length transaction. I’m happy for those who have “friends” at work, but I have zero.
You take your saddle and your pistol down the road when it’s time, and you ride for the brand that’s paying the most when we get to Abilene.
Nope, no guilt. The only thing you owed him for the job was to do your best work while there.
he thought that my wife put me up to this because I could never be so disloylal without someone whispering in my ear
I wonder if this friend/boss offered you a 20% raise out of loyalty to you when you told him you were leaving. After all, loyal employers would try to rectify any issues and show their employees how much they matter when their employees express a desire to leave.
It’s pretty low to go after the wife if you ask me.
I’m with Suthen, watch out for those two. You did the right thing. You gave two weeks and were a good employee.
“Bijou states that she has a disability recognized by a licensed psychiatrist and is authorized by a licensed doctor to use Pizza for support and companionship.”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5875937/Blogger-sues-NY-private-club-Soho-House-refused-allow-emotional-support-dog.html
Bijou states that she has a disability recognized by a licensed psychiatrist and is authorized by a licensed doctor
What’s even better than an appeal to authority? An appeal to two authorities!
Support deep dish?
Don’t remember who the other Coheed fan here was, but damn, the collectors box for the next album (out 10/25) looks amazing. http://www.coheedandcambria.com/
I forgot about them, a Zeppelin Clone as I recall, but more talented than these Kids..
https://youtube.com/watch?v=vHEwqhNnwHc
Not a Zeppelin clone – closer to Rush – very concept-heavy but a little more metal prog. (older stuff aka: https://youtu.be/n0H3RlaQVrM)
Thanks for the Reminder! this tune Rocks!
Theory of 9/11, illustrated
Someone wasn’t all the interested in getting laid that night.
LOL
“‘Freedom city’? Going beyond ‘sanctuary,’ Austin, Texas, vows to curtail arrests
Amid the controversy over sanctuary cities, Austin this month took its fight against strict immigration law enforcement a step further by declaring itself to be the first “freedom city” in Texas. City Council members unanimously passed two resolutions last week that will restrict police attempts to question immigrants about their status and curtail arrests for nonviolent crimes.
One of the new city resolutions requires officers who question immigrants about status to also say that their questions about immigration need not be answered. The other resolution directs police to avoid arrests for misdemeanors, including those for smoking marijuana, having drug paraphernalia, and taking part in petty theft — crimes that city data shows frequently end in arrests of black and Latino residents.
While Austin is among the country’s first so-called freedom cities, it’s part of a wider movement around decriminalizing low-level offenses and decreasing arrests. According to Local Progress, a national network of progressive city officials, some council members in El Paso and Dallas are also considering “freedom city” proposals.
“Poor people of color in our city are over-punished and over-incarcerated,” said Greg Casar, an Austin City Councilman who pushed for the resolutions. “If people are being arrested less, we can also prevent people from being put in the deportation pipeline.””
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-austin-freedom-city-2018-story.html
Man. I loved living in Austin. Sad to see it go that way.
On the other hand, since stealing is apparently legal, I may just head down and visit some liquor stores.
I can’t comment at work, (see Rufus, some of us work) so I’d like to discuss the comments about calories in versus calories out. I’m sure I’m eating more than if I was counting calories, and not exercising all that hard compared to the past when I have carefully counted calories and religiously gone to the gym. Yet, my clothes are sloooowwwwly getting looser and people have commented on my weight loss. I do avoid sugar and carbs – not too strictly. More that if I have toast at breakfast then no pasta or potatoes or rice the rest of the day. I don’t count carbs. But, as I said, I definitely eat more calories than a diet would allow, and I am losing. Most recently, I decided to have no alcohol five days a week and my weight loss accelerated a lot. But even before that, I was losing.
So, I don’t believe that it is just calories in versus calories out, but I could be persuaded. Any one have thoughts? Warty?
Dead thread…but…
Having gone full keto, I no longer believe a calorie is a calorie. Having seen the weight loss of going low carb in myself, my girlfriend, my brother, and a diabetic coworker, I see carbs and sugar as THE problem in our diets. I am not surprised in your results.
I have struggled with my weight my entire adult life. Low-carb is the only diet that has ever worked for me and it is not anecdotal; I lost 45 pounds when I went on the strict paleo-diet. When I went off-diet the pounds came back.
… Hobbit
Re work: Citation needed.
Do I comment during work hours? No. (Ok rarely, and I use my phone, and this week I am writing, so any, and I mean any excuse not to stare at the screen. My house was spotless while I was writing my dissertation. How can I concentrate when my floors are dirty?)
Did this get covered today and I missed it?
https://www.thewrap.com/morning-joe-donny-deutsch-compares-trump-voters-to-nazis/
I think they have figured out that they cant oust Trump with tin foil hat theories or political means so…..in true form for the radical left they are pushing towards violence. They want a civil war or a coup. These are dangerous people. Very dangerous.
“If you vote for Trump, then you, the voter, you, not Donald Trump, are standing at the border, like Nazis going ‘you here, you here,’” he said. “And I think we now have to flip it and it’s a given, the evilness of Donald Trump. But if you vote, you can no longer separate yourself. You can’t say, well he’s okay, but, and I think that gymnastics and I think that jiu-jitsu has to happen.”
Shorter Johnny – “We must find out who the deplorables are and purge them.”
Think it cant happen here? Think again.
It sure seems this is what they’ve been leading up to, what with constantly upping the rhetoric and expanding its coverage.
They are going to get their way or try to burn the world. Power is all that matters to them. The progress they have made over the last hundred years is being rolled back and it is intolerable to them.
I am not a fan of the milk toast Repubs, but I will be laughing my ass off if they pull off a win this November. I think they just might do so thanks to this type shit.
Related:
https://twitter.com/fakedansavage/status/1010163387144261632
In other news, twitter is a sewer.
CaliforniaThunderSno
@CalThunderSnow
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An FCC that is controlled by the very administration that is benefiting from Trump TV. These are extraordinary times and we have an extraordinary risk of losing the Republic because of what @foxnews is doing. It call for extraordinary action.
Violence calls for extraordinary means of self defense. Redifine words as violence and it justifies a violent response. Same ol’ left. I blame public education. These people have no idea what they are asking for.
Still trying to figure out what the hell Gorsuch was trying to say/prove when he voted no to cell phone warrants.
Didn’t he also flop on the online sales tax case? I remain disappointed.
I have my issues with Ben Shapiro, but I think he is on point here. Also, for your viewing pleasure, The Rageaholic.
“push like Louie Anderson after a 5-hour fondue bender”
I…I….Im trying to type, by my eyes are misting over.
If you tell people the word they’re not allowed to say, expect to be fired for using the word.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/06/22/i-sat-on-the-other-side-of-stephen-millers-first-wall-218886
That’s some mighty fine news work there, Lou.
That last paragraph:
he’s talking about, “a kid who sat next to him in 3rd grade”, and somehow he thinks this is perfect material to channel his jack kerouac
“Amend that: I don’t think black men should be allowed to speak about ANYTHING in public without first studying black women’s work.”
https://twitter.com/alwaystheself/status/1010173139538599936
Oh, and she wrote a book:
“How to Be Less Stupid About Race”
http://www.beacon.org/How-to-Be-Less-Stupid-About-Race-P1388.aspx
That chick has a Ph.D?
Yikes!
I found this interesting:
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Academic feminism didn’t exist during Ida B. Wells’ life as it does today but she was certainly an activist and scholar in the black feminist tradition. Black women organized for racial and gender empowerment before the term “intersectionality” emerged.”
‘…In the black feminist tradition’ in particular.’
That reads as “we reserve the right to call anyone of our choosing a black feminist’.
These people give themselves a loooong sophistic leash.