Links? What are you… uh oh.
Well, here are a couple:
Music… fine. Here.
Right then. Nothing else to see, move along citizens!
Links? What are you… uh oh.
Well, here are a couple:
Music… fine. Here.
Right then. Nothing else to see, move along citizens!
Comments
476 responses to “Links? What Links?”
FRIDAY FIRST
I read 2/3 of the links. I’m scared to touch the music link.
It isn’t Swiss alphorns, you’ll be ok.
Somebody’s clockwork skipped a cog.
Um…correct. How did you know?
Pretty obvious you got clockblocked dude. You need a better wingman.
I will contemplate that…on the Tree of Woe.
Clockblocker was a pretty awesome superhero
https://www.parahumans.net/
(Worm is the greatest superhero webserial of all time, and manages to have the most OP character while still remaining interesting. It is however, long. Like longer than all the Harry Potter books combined.)
Oh, Britain. How the mighty have fallen.
The rest of the good ones (like the “I am Millwall” guy) should just move to the US and let the rest accelerate their decline.
They’re part way there; isn’t it said that all the good Scots left Scotland already?
To you and Suthenboy, I think you’re largely correct; the good, brave, enterprising ones have mostly left, but a few cling on hoping to restore their once great country.
It’s like Heisenberg before WWII when his fellow physicists urged him to move to the USA with them. He said he knew war was coming, and he knew Germany would lose, but he said he needed to stay in Germany to help rebuild after the coming destruction.
There’s also a pretty good case to be made that he deliberately sabotaged the German nuke program from within by directing his scientists always to pursue dead-end ideas while steering them away from anything that was close to the right path.
Fascinating guy.
And there’s probably a case to be made that the good Europeans left Europe, writ large, for the “New World”.
I also vaguely recall coming across a book about how the Nazis were at best halfhearted in their pursuit of a nuclear bomb because the upper echelons of their leadership dismissed it as merely (((science))). I wish I had a copy or could remember the title.
“Heisenberg”s War: The Secret History of the Getman Bomb” is the book I recall.
Lots of hints, but not conclusive. A level of uncertainty, one might say.
I like to think he stalled it. It would be consistent with his other known examples of morality and character.
RoadSplosives wrote: “A level of uncertainty, one might say.”
Good. Very good.
*narrows gaze*
I thought that he was busy making meth for Nazi soldiers.
I think a lot of them have already
The best part of the “I am Millwall” story is that if you were told that story and said he yelled “I am [blank]”, Millwall is the obvious answer. Of course it was Millwall.
Dead cat bounce incoming on stocks today. Monday will be the real test.
*starts to shake*
Anyone know where we can get a full dose of links these days?
here?
YOU ARE CRUEL WITH YOUR FAKE LYNX!
Oh wait, I thought it was a response to where I linked. The link is broken.
I’ts funner when you realize I sent him Here
I thought you deliberately SF’d the link as some form of meta-joke.
If I’d thought of it, I might have.
But I didn’t have breakfast today…
Will this do for now?
Hier?
I’ve been busy this week with a visitor, but will return tomorrow with a full set of tested and certified Links meeting all ISO9001:2015 standards.
Tomorrow I’ll be busy celebrating Cleveland Beer Week. A new Christmas beer is being released by Platform at 10:00, so brunch there (I’m on the fence about the beer: Holiday [WAR ON CHRISTMAS] Donut Cookie). Then I need to decide between Bell’s Ruins Beer Week, and Great Lakes Saves Beer Week. A small list from Bell’s includes:
Great Lakes has yet to release a list, with the only promise being: 7 barrel aged selections including Quad, Rackhouse, and more.
Black Note is very good along with Uberon. My wife liked Pooltime.
Black Note is awesome. I won a bottle at the auction they hold at this event in one of the past years. Last year at the Bell’s event, they had a whole list of experimental sour beers, which is a nice option to have when you’re drinking all day. The more sub-5% beers, the better. They also did scheduled tappings for all of the rare ones. It looks like they’re all going to be available all day this time.
no love for ISO 14000 ?
Bless you OMWC
*climbs into the back of the van*
What visitor? The monthly red curse?
Auntie Flo?
Deadmau5 apologizes after being accused of homophobic and transphobic tweets
He’s since announced that he’s seeking professional help. For saying that women don’t have penises. I’m ready to get off this ride now.
When someone dies in this neighbourhood, the falling usually follows something not necessarily involving a movie ‘shoot’.
Threadfail!
We really are into 1984 shit here. You must accept and believe the most obvious and ridiculous lies, or be punished until you do.
I think the “It’s a Great Awakening” argument makes the most sense to me. It has all the hallmarks of religious fervor.
Marxism 101: destroy any and all institutions or values, and the idiots will accept any crap you peddle because they will not know better.
And forcing people to accept and parrot things they know to be obvious lies, will discourage them and defeat them and make them easier to control.
You get it.
That’s right out of the Commie playbook.
And that’s not a coincidence.
And we’re done here.
“we took our trans daughter ”
If she’s not 18, and you’ve done any hormonal blocking, you are way more of a monster than a guy who says ‘woman don’t have penises’
Looking through her twitter feed, she appears to be an attention whore who wears all of her emotional problems on her sleeve as a red badge of courage and constantly talks about her trans kids to strangers on the internet. In other words, Twitter was created to feed all of her worst impulses.
Sounds like your average proggie.
Out: Munchausen by proxy. New hotness: trans parenting.
I just think people that would do this shit to their kid so they can virtue signal instead of telling the kid that they will get the choice once they are an adult and no longer the parents responsibility, just piss me off. As an parent your job is to protect your kids from the stupid shit they might do, not help them destroy their lives so you can demand cool points in proggie douchebag circles.
Yeah, s/he has about as much agency as these woke mice do.
I love this guy even more now.
So you are saying you would suck him off for 40 grand?
Let’s be honest here. If you could make $40,000 for a BJ, you would be putting 8 hours a day in, every day.
You would be crazy not to.
“Superstars have a knack for horribly-customized supercars. While some plate them in colored-chrome or horrible paint schemes, others decide to pick up a trend and run with it, like Canadian DJ and producer, Deadmau5. The known Ferrari-trollster picked up a Lamborghini Huracan of his own back in 2015 and promptly wrapped it in Nyan Cat livery, making it instantly, and somewhat regrettably, distinguishable. Now, it’s up for sale and you can pick up the baton or save it from itself, if you’ve got the scratch.
Thanks to the rest of Deadmau5’s stable that includes a McLaren P1 and BAC Mono, this Huracan is a low-mileage example with less than 1,700 miles on the odometer. Save for its gawdy exterior, it’s said to be completely stock, meaning you could have the perfect Huracan for the money—a stock one.”
http://www.thedrive.com/sheetmetal/14626/you-can-buy-deadmau5s-nyan-cat-themed-lamborghini-huracan-right-now
I’m thinking his parents were rich, because I can’t figure how he could have made that much money from his music.
wraps are intentionally removable. problem solved.
He was banking around $200k a night for appearances a few years back, which is about typical for the top earning DJs.
Do you not understand the market for dance music these days? Popular DJ’s regularly pull 5-6 figures for single party appearances. Not to say that the music is good …. my favourite dj’s and producers are like the NHL players of old, having to also hold down a full time job while plying their art.
He probably makes more $$ as a producer than a performer.
I guess C**k Sucker is out as an insult?
“That’s not a bad man, that’s a good woman!”
– George Carlin
It’s not a chick with a dick: it’s a dude with tits! – AlexinCT
Ok, I only read a couple of the quoted lines from that little argument. Thank God.
I’m ready to get off this ride now.
Honestly, I’m more surprised that he expected anything different. It’s show business. Actual reality, actual physical, real world, reality, isn’t something any of them deal with or have to deal with. Ratings, the opinions of the group, is the entirety of their feedback loop. And the people most plugged into the pop culture game are other people who, for whatever reason, have little or no need to focus on actual reality.
“He’s since announced that he’s seeking professional help.”
If it distracts him to the point of not making shitty EDM for awhile then I’m all for it.
High-priced call girls would be professional help, right?
Old news, and probably covered in a previous linx, but… why would you run for office representing A state you hate?
Because if you finagle your way into the senate, it’s all cocktail parties, insider trading, and graft from then until you get a glioblastoma. Lots of money to be made and glory to be hogged in the Public Servant (TM) roles.
Yeah, they somehow manage to accumulate millions in wealth, which obviously doesn’t come from their salaries.
Just because they’re exempt from insider trading laws doesn’t mean they would use their knowledge of upcoming appropriations and regulations to their benefit. They’re just all really lucky in the stock market.
I don’t think anything came of this, but it would have been a decent start.
Wait, for real? They’re exempt?! Looking this up…
Whoa! Where have I been? Not cool.
Where have you been?
You’ve been stuck behind the bar of a haunted hotel, serving drinks to murderous demons who have delusions of being human. You’ve probably been stuck on that mountain since, well since God kicked the angels out of heaven.
egould, You’re right, I’ve always been the bartender.
Up until the mid 90’s, there were even more laws that Congress exempted itself from. They’re our betters, and made of a much finer clay then us lowly sinners.
For all talk of checks and balances in civics classes, there doesn’t seem to be a whole lot of consideration for scenarios in which two or more branches of the federal government collude to enrich themselves at the expense of the public. Maybe having senators selected by the states instead of directly elected? Of course, that’s long gone though…
But unless a super-majority of Congress overrode a presidential veto, the exemptions you mention have to have been passed by Congress and signed by a president.
And who would even be granted standing to challenge such a thing judicially?
Checks and balances was supposed to work such that if one branch got too uppity or overbearing, the other two would slap them down. The possibility that they would team up to fuck the people was supposed to be taken care of by the second amendment.
And I’m willing to bet if you look back through the records, all of those bills passed with bipartisan support. It’s a fun item to point out to the progs though. Especially the true believer types. So these laws are really important and protect people, right? So why does Congress exempt themselves from them?
The possibility that they would team up to fuck the people was supposed to be taken care of by the second amendment.
There wasn’t supposed to be a standing military either. But now asshats like Waxman regularly get (re-)elected. /sigh
That is one of the things I am honestly shocked that the founders never considered. How do you not have a Constitutional clause or amendment stating that…
“Congress shall make no law which exempts any elected or appointed official of the United States of America from any law or regulation imposed on the people of America”
But the 28th amendment is just an internet hoax!
The default screenshot of that youtube clip is….such a good depiction of the face of a person who is under a constant pressure from Outrage and Concern.
I did not mean to copy the anchor part which leads to my comment instead of the article head. Here is the proper link
Saliva played in our little town’s festival this summer.
I have never seen a single episode of the besainted Mister Rogers.
I am apparently the only one.
Mr Robinson is better anyways – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_MDCH-W2WU
If you are referring to Fred Rodgers as “Besainted” in an ironic way, you are wrong.
By all accounts he was a very good guy. I just don’t know anything about him other than knowledge of the show and Congressional testimony.
It’s weird seeing someone practically worshiped as being such a paragon of man when you know nothing about them.
*Shrug*
Damn. Now I’ve got the theme song stuck in my head. Mr. Rogers was on the PBS station here right before a local guy (who urban legend has it went on air drunk and ranting one day), and then came Sesame Street and the Electric Company. And Mr. Rogers taught Opus the penguin to talk.
I used to watch him (first run episodes) as a wee little Bobbyarian.
I never understood why he put on different shoes when he got home, but I’d sing the song with him as he changed out of his street shit.
Check out the documentary. It is really good.
I actually met him and his crew back in 1983 and 1984. I was working at the North Carolina Center for public television while I was at college. I helped set up a booth they made appearances at at the State Fair.
So I drove to the airport and picked them up. They were all exactly as they seem on the TV show. Not just nice. Way, way over-the-top nice. Easily the nicest, kindest people I’ve ever met in my life.
I was just an 18 or 19 year old kid, and Fred Rogers asked me all kinds of questions about myself and what I was doing. By then he had been a big celebrity for a really long time. But he took the time to try to have actual conversations with people.
I am fairly certain that he was the real deal. He legitimately had a mission to make the lives of children better.
I have seen a few other famous people behind the scenes. I’ve met a handful of big-name politicians. They are all something different behind the scenes than what they present in public. I met a few famous musicians and athletes. They were mostly just regular people who were really good at something. Mostly they had outsized egos once they got famous. Even in quiet times away from the crowd.
But Fred Rogers acted exactly like he did on the TV show when he was in a trailer getting a sandwich at the fair. Mild mannered and intensely kind. At the time I was both impressed and bemused. Having someone talk to you in that quiet, “I’m talking to a four-year-old” voice when you’re having an adult conversation is a bit odd. I made plenty of jokes about it with my friends. But he was one seriously impressive dude.
What a great story. Thanks for sharing it.
Agreed. Thank, Cyto.
It’s a good thing you’re not my neighbor.
Don’t worry. State Farm is there.
Collectivised Agriculture is a terrible idea.
State Farm pulled out of Cambodia after killing all of their customers.
You know who else pulled out….?
I can think of plenty who should have.
NOT STEVE SMITH?
This got a hearty chuckle from me. Also reminded me….
Obviously, if there’s one thing we’ve learned in the last thousand miles of retreat, is that Russian agriculture is dire need of mechanization.
I remember as a kid being creeped out by that rouged old lady puppet. My mom thought it was whacked, too.
Lady Elaine Fairchild. You weren’t the only kid who didn’t like her.
Her voice terrified me as a wee bairn and now I’m triggered by the raspy, sepulchral sound of NPR’s Diane Rehm.
“Prove yourself brave, truthful and unselfish, and someday you *will* be a real old lady.”
You should watch a few episodes.
I saw a documentary of some sort years back. In it were people talking about the horrible abuse they went through as children, but when they got to watch Mr. Rogers he gave them hope and belief that someone out there loved them. It was very touching. He touched a lot of lives in ways that hopefully none of us here can even understand.
He’s besainted for a very good reason.
If you report someone else’s opinion it doesn’t have to be in the editorial pages:
https://amp.usatoday.com/amp/1582044002
“When we are not in the Constitution for any protections except for the right to vote, I think that it allows for a perspective of ‘lesser than,’ ”
You’re being obtuse. The SC and all leagal has said that the Constitution aplies to both Men and women. Especially the FYTW clause
She is doing her part to visually demonstrate the fact that beauty does not correspond to intellect or sanity. This is important because men are genetically programmed to believe sexy = smart and good. This leads to bad things. Save the bunnies! Don’t stick it in crazy!
She’s not just crazy, she’s also a fucking idiot.
Yeah but sticking it in stupid doesn’t have the same penalties as crazy
True dat.
I doubt that is her own thinking. She is sending up a trial balloon for the left. They want title IX for the whole country. That was the plan and goal all along.
Complete with kangaroo courts.
eh, why would she stop now? A senior US senator invited to sit in on SC nomination hearings. Her self-importance must have shot up 100-fold after that.
She is the worst combination of things: a crazy, stupid person who thinks she is smart and important.
Swiss Links, now with twice the linkiness of Brett Barnd links.
It’s enough to drive a person to read DrudgeReport and the DailyMail. Sigh.
I’m just joking here, the Glib team do an amazing job running this site, better than the paid folk a TOS both in terms of reliability and content, so an occasional slip, or mid hurricane phoning in of linkage is ok by me.
It is a pretty great site, isn’t it? And ad-free!!
Well, except for UCS and the constant shilling for his books.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/11/opinion/republicans-lies-medicare-pre-existing-conditions.html
Krugman: Goodbye political spin, hello blatant lies.
It’s good for the NYT to be honest about it’s reporting… Oh that’s not what they meant?
I always say that Krugman’s writing boils down to “Republicans bad, Democrats good”. But holy hell if he isn’t this/close to writing it literally this time.
At least we have Krugman to provide us with such lucid takes as “an alien invasion would be good for the economy”. So smart
Can’t wait for the next Krugman-approved destruction of New York skyscrapers by foreigners.
I seem to recall that wasn’t actually so great for the economy.
I would love to see him try to explain the difference. I’d be frightened by the people who would not regard his explanation as complete nonsense.
He’s the only person who ever played Galaga and thought “this is a good example of creative destruction”
+1 Trillion dollar coin.
Krugman is a puppet of the central bankers. He’ll keep parroting the Fabian socialist line because he’s got his Nobel and his sweet NYT gig.
“Crew member dies after fall on set of Mister Rogers movie”
Mister Rogers directed by Michael Bay?
Tom Hanks is not doing his own stunts because they are too dangerous.
The crew member didn’t die. That’s a ruse. He was sacrificed to appease Hanks’ god, Baal. Tom Hanks is a monster.
The guy was leading an insurrection against King Friday.
It isnt very clear. The article says he had a medical emergency and then fell. Heart attack? Stroke? I am thinking it wasn’t the fall that killed him.
Henrietta clawed his eyes
Struck by a trolley…
Run over by the trolley.
It was the sudden stop at the end?
The music made up for the so-so links. I will continue to visit this site…
*narrows gaze*
I do enjoy a good “THE LINKS ARE LATE!” riot, but cleaning up afterwards kinda sucks.
You mean telling the group of meandering mammals to stop muttering incoherently and head over to the lynx thread?
Much better than the riots thrown by KLANTIFA, by a long shot.
Our sense of entitlement is shocking.
Fuck that noise. When crackheads find out their dealer has been arrested, they can always go get crack from another dealer. What are we supposed to do? There isn’t another dealer for us!
We have it worse than crackheads!!!!
What Jimbo is trying to say is that he’d suck yo’ dick for more links…
/Scratching wrist
Like this.
Suck it for 40. That would be grand!
A 40 ounce of what?
Only police should have guns. And not even police. And police have no duty to protect you. Or one another. And you have no right whatsoever to protect yourself.
MuricaLondonistan.Whoopsie!
The U.S. Navy, Air Force and Marines — as well as 11 international partners who participated in the program — grounded all F-35 fighters on Thursday as part of an ongoing investigation into a jet that crashed in Beaufort, South Carolina, late last month
———–
This is the only latest turbulence for a long troubled flight program that began in October 2001. A Government Accountability Office report to Congress in June 2018 showed that the fighter grew increasingly expensive and regularly missed its deadlines, forcing the program to completely restructure in 2010 after moving its financial goal posts multiple times.
The office recommended in its June report that the Department of Defense “resolve all critical deficiencies before full-rate production.”
“Why didn’t we think of this sooner?”
A trillion bucks doesn’t buy you what it used to.
“resolve all critical deficiencies before full-rate production.”
They clearly don’t understand the purpose of a bridge to nowhere.
Your taste in Metal is too ‘new’, Swiss.
Get down with The Oldies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJlBfgu7HDk
Even older
Where’s a time machine when you need one?
Voivod was great, and one of the few metal bands that wasn’t mostly derivative.
Yes, Piggy forever.
I just picked what would be my walk up music if I could still play rugby….
*single tear shed*
Don’t listen to the haters. Your link kicked ass. Danke sehr!
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/10/poll-shows-activism-highest-among-non-religious-democrats/572674/?utm_source=feed
FTA:
“Religiously unaffiliated voters, who may or may not be associated with other civic institutions, seem most excited about supporting or donating to causes, going to rallies, and expressing opinions online, among other activities. Political engagement may be providing these Americans with a new form of identity. And in turn, they may be helping to solidify the new identity of the Democratic Party.”
It’s almost as if a lack of engagement with civic institutions brings one to the faith of the state
Almost
People gotta believe in something…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IUxK_0WLbg
Marxisms replaces god with government, and promises heaven on earth, but can only deliver hell.
Facebook shuts down ‘spammy’ politics pages
That’s cover for removing pages oitside of the political mainstream. FB’s aiming to be the bland white Wonderbread of social media sites.
Of course all of the pages they are removing tend to be of the conservative, right-wing nature.
And yucky libertarians, of course.
It’s almost like there is a pattern/bias, but I can’t put my finger on it…
Here’s the list. Several of these, I know are legitimate pages. Punkrock Libertarians is one
COPIED from yesterday
Some of the pages DELETED & CENSORED by facebook today.
The Free Thought Project – 3.1 m
The Anti Media – 2.1m
Police the Police – 1.9m
Cop Block – 1.7m
Filming Cops – 1.4m
Choice & Truth – 2.9m
Punk Rock Libertarians – 125k
End The Drug War – 460k
Mass Report – 500k
Skeptic Society
No Victim, No Crime
Modern Slavery Hilarious Vines
I Only Owe You Non Aggression – 13k
Bay Area Police The Police – 7k
V is For Voluntary – 160k
Conspiracy Facts – 120k
The Free Thought Project (back up page) – 23k
You Won’t See This On TV
Fucked Up Shit You Should Know About
Unlimited Liberty
Citizens For A Bleaker America
Rachel Blevins – 69k
Police the Police NY
Gun Laws Don’t Work
The Liberty Principle: No Consent From The Governed
Policing The Police
Legalize Cannabis
Get Involved, You Live Here: 360k
Fuck The Government – 154k
New School Raphael 1
Voluntaryist Veterans
Anonymous News
Hemp
Matt Agorist – 5.4k
TheAnonNews
DIY Revival
We The Individuals
Press For Truth – 350k
Anti GMO Foods and Fluoridated Water
North Texas Cop Block
Black Markets Are Beautiful – 3k
Political Junkie News Media
Free Your Mind Conference
Psychologic – Anarchist
Reports say its up to 800, so I shall update the list as more names come in.
Thanks Lara Starr
Heating Voluntary and Air Conditioning?
Polyvoluntary chloride.
Positive Crankcase Voluntary.
That is obviously a Russian bot site. Everybody knows V is for Vacuum. Just ask Yusef.
“Fluoridated Water”
IT’S GOING TO TURN THE FRIGGIN FROGS GAY!
That list seems to skew Libertarianish
Balko was one of few high profile journos to even discuss this on Twitter yesterday, as well as Greenwald. If you are against the status quo, either from right, left, or anarchist country, they want you gone.
“REVEALED: Melania Trump says her husband’s alleged affairs with Stormy Daniels and others are of ‘no concern’ to her while declaring she loves the president -and loathes Rudy Giuliani”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6269435/Melania-Trump-says-husbands-alleged-affairs-Stormy-Daniels-no-concern.html
Sure, they have an arrangement of sorts, and love might even be involved, which is fine.
Shorter Melania: “I got the ring and now I am the First Lady, biotch.”
Hat and Hair material…
John Kelly no likey Fauxcahontas
White House Chief of Staff John Kelly last year called Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren an “impolite arrogant woman” in an email to an aide after taking a phone call with her regarding President Trump’s travel ban…
“Absolutely most insulting conversation I have ever had with anyone,” Kelly wrote. “What an impolite arrogant woman. She immediately began insulting our people accusing them of not following the court order, insulting and abusive behavior towards those covered by the pause, blah blah blah.”…
“Too bad Senate Majority Leader McConnell couldn’t order her to be quiet again!” Carroll responded to Kelly. “Warren is running for president so early, trying too hard, and chasing bad pitches.”
I suppose they will not be sharing a peace pipe any time soon.
I have no idea who this is.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-6269049/Supergirl-star-Amy-Jackson-dons-thigh-split-dress.html
She screams “high maintenance”
Maybe, you’d incur a low grocery bill though.
Nah, she refunds.
wood
Damn, even Splinter is calling out Avenatti’s bullshit:
Michael Avenatti’s Beto O’Rourke Donation Page Tries to Split the Money with His Shitty PAC
“Chip in for Beto now,” Avenatti wrote. Except that ActBlue page isn’t a direct donation form to O’Rourke’s campaign, as writer Chris Hooks quickly pointed out.
When you click on the ActBlue link, it takes you to a donation page with both Beto’s logo and the Fight PAC brand. In the fine print above the donation button, it says that the money will be split evenly between O’Rourke’s campaign and the Fight PAC.
I think left and right can come together and agree that Michael Avenatti deserves a swirlie.
I guess he’s still Michael Avenatti because Saul Goodman was taken.
Freaky Friday: When It’s Time to Buy a Lottery Ticket
Holy shit. Surprised buddy’s legs didn’t get crushed.
Surprised he wasn’t hurt.
I saw that movie, it starred Bruce Willis. And sucked.
It was good, until the twist at the end.
The twist at the end was the only good part of that movie.
I enjoyed the last 5 minutes, it was mindnumbingly boring to get that.
Lift weight. Add 5 lbs. Lift weight. Add 5 lbs. Lift weight…..
I can tell it isn’t New Jersey. People aren’t honking and yelling at him to get the fuck out of the way.
Oh, the comments. Those redditors are a funny bunch.
We’re not broke, as long as we have checks…
He’s been explaining it for decades to whomever would listen.
Which, for most of that period, was hardly anyone. But now his home-brewed doctrine is gaining an unlikely foothold in the Democratic Party. Several candidates in the midterm elections, and a few who have an eye on 2020, are coming out with plans that draw on his ideas—even if they’ve never heard of the man or the doctrine, known as Modern Monetary Theory, that he once promoted in early internet chat rooms.
Its main argument is that governments with their own currencies can’t go broke. They have more room to spend than is usually supposed and don’t need to collect taxes (or even borrow) to pay for it. One thing they can, and should, spend money on is a jobs guarantee—offering work to anyone who wants it.
Zimbabwe says welcome to the club.
So nix the European Union?
There was a monetarist who commented a lot at TOS . Trying to remember his handle.
Tulpa? Or are you talking about American SoCon or some shit like that.
It was draco or something like that.
Venezuela is doing the greetings now. Zimbabwe is drunk dialing Brazil and Argentina trying to get them to come back to him.
Yeah, because money and wealth are totally the same thing.
“…governments with their own currencies can’t go broke.”
Venezuela says, “Hold my beer.”
My late Uncle Bruce was fond of making Coffee Royals before heading out into the woods of Northwestern Ontario to haul heavy equipment around on a lowboy, but that wouldn’t compare to the drinks this guy would make tostart the day right in the Oval Office.
Armed guards in the kitchen are a nice touch.
I think Hunter S. Thompson has has him beat .
TW: Joe Rogan
When you’re cool, the sun shines on you 24/7 and even indoors!
Crypto_Mafia_
@Crypto_Mafia_
Oct 11
Replying to @officialmcafee
thats incredible. what are you blood pressure numbers xD
John McAfee
Verified account @officialmcafee
Oct 11
Normal
Crypto_Mafia_
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Oct 11
I need to get on the mcafee system
John McAfee
Verified account @officialmcafee
Oct 11
Drugs, alcohol and cigarettes. The secret to long life and eternal happiness.
Huh. Got home from work this morning and Wifey informed me that my Dad is dead. He pulled into the wrong lanes on a divided highway and head-onned a lady and her two year-old. They are in critical condition, he’s playing a harp. Christ, what an asshole.
Tabarnak.
I’m sorry.
…
Jesus.
I’m sorry on all accounts.
Oh man! That’s awful! I hope the survivors recover!
Details are sketchy. This happened on Wednesday and we heard nothing of of it until now. Apparently my cousin who is a cop (?!) got ahold of my other cousin who is in IT and she was able to track me down through my step-daughter on my “defunct” Facebook page. I won’t know anything until I talk to my Aunt this evening. She flew out to be with him when he passed and has been making all of the arrangements. Thanks Joan!
Shit. Sorry
Goddamn. Drunk? Old? Just a bad driver? Asleep?
Sorry for your loss. Hope the injured family pulls though.
Old, failing eyesight, still having to work at 78 yrs old as a delivery van driver. I’d put suicide at a less than random chance. Apparently he’d been having spells lately and Alsheimer’s took Grandma.
Jesus, man. Sorry.
Yikes.
Sorry 🙁
Condolences. So sorry to hear that.
*Sincerely hugs and pats on the back*
That is truly awful. Sorry man
My goodness. Virtual hugs for you, and I’m sure plenty of willing ears here at Glibs when you want/need to share.
So sorry.
We weren’t emotionally close but there was always a bond. I know that my brother and I sorely disappointed him as did he for us.
I am so sorry.
Thank you for your kind words, everyone. He used to be a fine, upstanding man and something broke in him when he was pushing fifty.
Echoing everyone else, sorry Festus.
One of my first memories was when he put me on his shoulders as we walked up a forest path to see a waterfall. My Dad was 6’4” and the leaves were tickling my noggin. I was two. I remember hanging on to his leg for dear life at the Centennial fireworks in 1967.
:'(
Sorry for your loss.
Well. Fuck.
Sorry for your loss.
That’s horrible.
Sorry for your loss.
Shit, buddy…that sucks. Were all here for you.
Damn. That’s rough, Festus.
I know I’m late, as usual, but the others have said it all. Sad to hear about your relationship with your father. Do the best with your own family. We all have our demons and they come in different directions.
It’s hard to get around my own feelings right now. This is a man that gambled his mortgage away rather than let his wife have the house. Never bet against a man that doesn’t give a shit.
Good luck. Some hurts heal slowly.
Dude – so sorry to read that.
Prayers for Liberty!
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2018/10/11/susan-rices-republican-son-assaulted-during-prokavanaugh-rally-n2527456
Apparently, Susan Rice, of the Obama administration, has a son in college who is very conservative and he was recently assaulted by progressives for supporting Kavanaugh’s nomination.
For days I have been hearing proggies demanding that their critics stop calling them violent.
Don’t call me violent, or I’ll curb-stomp your ass!
Nothing more intolerable than an uppity negro who doesn’t think what very smart white people think he should.
Camille Paglia: Feminism Is The Collapse Of Western Civilization
With the launch of Camille Paglia’s new book this week, the Drudge Report has unearthed the heterodox feminist’s 2016 discussion of feminism as the collapse of Western Civilization. In her discourse Paglia explains, “The period of the 1920s, 1930s: that to me is my favorite period in feminism because these women admired what men had done. There was no male bashing as became systemic to Second Wave feminism. It’s an absolute poison that has spread worldwide.” The author of Sexual Personae later takes on the “neuroticism” endemic to modern feminism and how the movement’s deconstruction of traditional culture bred the “new religion” of political correctness.
As the Left increasingly insists upon coddling women, abolishing due process, and even dabbling in cultic activism, Paglia’s comments offer a refreshing perspective from as insightful a scholar of feminism as any.
It isnt just feminism. It is the goal of all left wing causes.
I find myself using your phrase ‘Trojan horse for socialism’ a lot. (I *think* it was you I first heard that phrase from.)
Like AGW, it is a means to peddle marxism to the masses. Where it differs from AGW is that AGW is doing so by using scare tactics, while feminism is simply making men the enemy of civilization.
I got it from someone else here, I cant remember who, but it was too accurate not to steal.
She’s a fucking not. I love her.
*nut*.
Goddammit.
Do that in your bunk, please.
You were correct on both counts, Warty. She wouldn’t fuck you with Caitlin Jenner’s dick and she is mad in the traditional sense!
Just bought her book. Might as well support the people who see thru the insanity.
I love that she is writing this kind of thing.
Now that the remnants of that hurricane have passed, it is finally Autumn here! The first day in about month that isn’t warm. foggy, misty crap.
Starting to be here too. The acorns haven’t fallen yet though.
My side-yard is covered in a solid blanket of acorns and hickory nuts.
Friggen squirrels are going insane with the acorns and black walnuts. My yard looks like it’s going to be thick with oak and walnut trees this year.
Box them up and mail them to me. My trees haven’t made much of anything this year and I need seed for 85 acres.
If you are serious, email me your address.
Thank you but I am not serious. I was joking about my jealousy.
I have tried that before. Seed from other parts of the country do not do well here. The soil, weather and population of microorganisms are different. The trees may be the same species but they are adapted metabolically to local areas. I got a couple hundred pounds of black walnut from North Carolina once and busted my ass for a week planting them. Not one survived. They feebly reached a couple of feet tall and just gave up the ghost. There’s a fella down the road with three black walnuts and the seed from those sprout every time. They grow slow, but that is to be expected.
I do appreciate the offer but it would probably be wasted effort.
I was just reading pages on the internet about Red Hickory. It is supposed to be an uncommon variety – but they grow like weeds in my section of NW New Jersey. Probably the most attractive and healthiest big tree in my yard – and a bunch more in neighbors’ yards and the surrounding woods.
So, yeah – they might not like your area.
I read that oaks typically produce few acorns annually but intermittently produce a friggin’ ton of them. I forget what the “strategy” is called, but apparently it happens so that once in a while the animals can’t possibly eat all of them which helps the oak species survive.
When I had live oaks, it seemed like every other year was a “holy shit, look at all those acorns” year.
Live oaks may be my favorite tree to have around, although they are nearly useless for lumber and difficult even for firewood due to their twisted grain short trunks, and non-straight branches. We used to have some grandfathers around our house in Texas, and in good acorn years you could hear the deer hooves clattering on the porch in the evenings as they hoovered them up.
That’s true, but it isnt just oaks. All nut bearing species do that and many fruit species as well. That is why the critter populations that eat them also fluctuate in cycles.
I read about cicadas the other day – there is one planted somewhere outside my (7th floor!) living room window that has been buzzing away every night for weeks – and they use the same strategy.
The acorns have been dropping like mad here, the leaves haven’t changed colors though.
Hell yeah. I love when a blast of cold air from Canada blows that wet-sponge shit out.
It was 9 fucking degrees this morning. 9.
Fuck you, global warming.
Cosmonaut Crashed Into Earth ‘Crying In Rage’
Old article but very interesting. Apparently there was a time when NPR had decent articles.
Without reading the article…my father has worked in remote places all over the world. For entertainment he used to listen in on short wave radios. He told me he has heard that numerous times…cosmonaughts screaming as they burned up on re-entry. The Russians had a high failure rate.
The Soviets lost far more cosmonauts than survived. It’s why they would never pre-announce a launch. Only after the vehicle didn’t blow up on the ground, bounce off the atmosphere, or hurtle off into deep space would they let everyone know of their great accomplishment.
I know someone who toured their facilities shortly after the CCCP fell. Most of their equipment was using knob and tube wiring and every engineer/scientist there wanted to inspect his private plane just to see the avionics, which were mind-blowing to them.
OPEN. CASKET.
pure balls.
He took the mission because he didn’t want his buddy to die.
Toxic. Masculinity.
Why is progressivism considered punk? If there’s ever an ideology less punk than progressivism, name it: no smoking, drink in moderation or not at all, pornography is evil, sex work questionable, moral scolds, collective guilt, tone policing, bureacracy, and a growing reverence for police, judges, and prosecutors—as long as they cleave to the party line. Is Rollins stuck with his head in the stodgy political climes of his youth, or just up his own ass? Or was punk a big put-on from the start, the scene for preppy white kids?
Or was punk a big put-on from the start, the scene for preppy white kids?
More or less that.
“Hello Daddy, hello Mom….” Cosplay before it was mainstreamed and commodified into conventions and random retreats. Hell, I cosplayed a hippy in high school even though I was a jock and took all the AP courses.
I’ve been wondering that over the past couple of months. I’m so far out of the popular music scene I can’t see it with a telescope, but I don’t hear of that many new bands pushing back against all of the overreach. Fuck, almost every band released an anti PMRC track back in the 80’s. I mean, where’s this generations Jello Biafra, Joan Jett, Ramones, Donnas, Descendents, NOFX, Rancid, Bad Religion, Propaghandi, Social Distortion, Bouncing Souls, Agnostic Front, etc…
I’ve seen Rollins perform twice in his never-ending nostalgia tour for punkgressives, and it’s the same schtick every time, much like his columns. And yeah, you are absolutely correct – progressivism is about as punk as I am a registered Democrat. The two faith systems are irreconcilable.
Thanks for posting that; KDW is a treasure, and even if I disagree with some of his content, the writing is always top-notch.
I saw Rollins perform in high school. He’s entertaining, no question. Just maybe stick to your life story as a touring, aging rocker. You’ve got money and drive enough to live and work and travel like that, and you want to discuss domestic politics? That’s like hiring a pricey escort to read off the room service menu because you forgot your reading glasses.
Even old ladies don’t like him anymore
I’ve never understood the appeal of Henry Rollins.
But he’s always been so cool
I think punk has always been pretty left leaning. The Clash and the Sex Pistols were the socialist opposition to Reagan and Thatcher.
However, at the time, the left was fighting against censorship and discrimination.
The Ramones split the middle, NOFX has claimed libertarian in the past, and there’s a couple of others who are fairly apolitical.
And the punk-left wasn’t interested in all the moral and nanny BS that came to define the left over time.
Some of us slowly drifted more and more into Oi and Rock Against Communism type stuff because of this. Which leads me to an observation. I have a fascination with racialist music of all flavors. I don’t endorse or condone the ideology from which it springs but I do appreciate the work product. I’ve found it rather impolitic to bring up amongst peers, even those whose supposed passion and devotion to the musical arts is greater than mine, because of the weird ethnic double standard whereby one can listen to Public Enemy or The Mau-Maus and not be given a second glance but if one cops to listening to Skrewdriver or Day Of The Sword, one becomes a great evil that must be shunned.
From the Feeding of the 5000, recorded in 1978:
It was dead as soon as it started.
Still, I went out to see the Descendants last week and had a great time.
totalitarianism is anathema to punk. and what is the progressive movement if not state control and conformity of thought.
“Thousands of young U.S. children get no vaccines, survey finds
Although 70 percent of young children are vaccinated a small but growing number of children are not, worrying health officials.
A small but growing proportion of the youngest children in the U.S. have not been vaccinated against any disease, worrying health officials.
An estimated 100,000 young children have not had a vaccination against any of the 14 diseases for which shots are recommended, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report released Thursday.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/kids-health/thousands-young-us-children-get-no-vaccines-survey-finds-n919166
The new estimate is based on finding that, in 2017, 1.3 percent of the children born in 2015 were completely unvaccinated. That’s up from the 0.9 percent seen in an earlier similar assessment of the kids born in 2011.
Quick, let’s everybody panic then.
(standard parents who don’t vaccinate their kids are retarded disclaimer)
That seems like a problem that will eventually solve itself.
“Neil Patrick Harris says Whoopi Goldberg promised him sex”
https://pagesix.com/2018/10/11/neil-patrick-harris-says-whoopi-goldberg-promised-him-sex/amp/
Is that why he gay?
Best reason I’ve ever heard.
Ted Danson actually GOT the sex. He didn’t turn gay, but he lost a lot of hair.
The rest of it turned white.
So bad it turned his wig white.
And he was racist for a brief period of time, which was weird
https://thegrio.com/2013/10/28/flashback-ted-danson-donned-blackface-at-whoopi-goldbergs-behest-20-years-ago-this-month/
Cliff: Hey, Sammy, I don’t think putting on a minstrel show at the bar is a good idea
Sam: It’s OK, Cliff. I’m screwing one of the blacks
Cliff: Ah, Sammy, I’m not so sure they appreciate being called “the blacks” either
Sam: Cliff, we live in Boston. Literally, America’s asshole. There are thousands of racist Irish drunks swarming this City. Who cares what the blacks think
Cliff: Ah, I think I got to find another bar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-mi0r0LpXo
The ones I know call themselves “Black” and think “African-American” is stupid.
This Hollywood MeToo crap…who is buying that? Hasn’t anyone heard of the casting couch? It’s been a thing as long as there has been show business.
Yeah, a lot of it sounds more like a business transaction than an assault.
It’s been around for at least this long…
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LIEkvPmgAHI
You’re right Whoopi. Do you think that you could maybe help do something about that? Nah, just keep being an SJW warrior instead.
Just askin’
When he was arguing for the ratification of the Constitution, Alexander Hamilton wrote that the judiciary “will always be the least dangerous branch to the political rights of the Constitution,” in part because he believed the federal courts would stand above the political fray and act as a bulwark against tyranny from all directions.
But it’s hard to defend the Supreme Court on these grounds today.
As my colleague Matthew Yglesias noted last week, the Court is now a blunt political instrument, used repeatedly to undermine outcomes of democratic governance — often on behalf of corporate interests. And the recent disaster that was the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation has further delegitimized the Court in the public’s mind.
So it’s perfectly reasonable to ask if we should abolish the Supreme Court, or at the very least strip the Court of its ability to overturn laws that it rules unconstitutional. If the Court is no longer a neutral arbiter of the law, if it’s gradually shape-shifting into a partisan weapon, then maybe it’s time to rethink its role in our constitutional system.
The whole point of the Court is to undermine outcomes of democratic governance which attempt to negate the limitations embodied in the Constitution. But let’s just be honest, and say we want to live in a banana republic.
If the Court is no longer a neutral arbiter of the law, if it’s gradually shape-shifting into a partisan weapon, then maybe it’s time to rethink its role in our constitutional system.
You’re at least 85 years late to the party if that’s the standard, dickbreath.
used repeatedly to undermine outcomes of democratic governance
That’s the core of it right there. They don’t view the Constitution as a way of protecting the people from the (tyrannical) excesses of centralized government, but as some ancient, archaic impediment to the implementation of “proper policy”. You know, written by some dead white guys like a hundred years ago. Like, get woke already.
What were the corporate interests at play in Brown, Griswold, Roe, Sims, Lawrence, and Obergefell, exactly?
At least Cass Sunstein had the honesty to note that it was Roe v. Wade that upset the position of the Court in the public and political consciousness, and energized conservatives to tilt it their way. Democrats had settled themselves into the “post-war consensus” mentality and gone on a judiciary-trumping-democracy spree for 30+ years. Conservatives fought back against that, and now they’re the bad guys.
Sort of the way California’s Supreme Court struck down a repeatedly democratically enacted gay marriage ban, right?
I wonder what “Its different when we do it” is in Latin?
Et cum aliud facere?
federal courts would stand above the political fray and act as a bulwark against tyranny from all directions.
Noted approvingly by the author.
used repeatedly to undermine outcomes of democratic governance
Noted disapprovingly by the author.
0_o
So it’s perfectly reasonable to ask if we should abolish the Supreme Court,
Good luck amending the Constitution.
or at the very least strip the Court of its ability to overturn laws that it rules unconstitutional. If the Court is no longer a neutral arbiter of the law
Good luck amending the Constitution
I mean, seriously? That last thing is the whole point of scotus.
I’ve always been puzzled by this sentence in Article III:
Article III also says “The judicial power of the United States, shall be vested in one Supreme Court, and in such inferior courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish,” and goes on to define federal jurisdiction as “the judicial power shall extend to all cases [followed by a listing of cases that is about what you think]”.
Article III seems to establish federal jurisdiction as a Constitutional matter, and then gives Congress the authority to limit that jurisdiction at least as the Supreme Court. Taking Congress’s power literally, it could “except” from the Supreme Court’s jurisdiction cases “arising under the Constitution”, which seems like it should take a Constitutional amendment, since those cases are listed in the Constitution as within the Supreme Court’s jurisdiction. Oddly, this would also mean that Circuit Courts would have the final say on the Constitutionality of statutes, regs, etc.
Congress could abolish the circuit and district courts, Everything in Article 3 except the Supreme Court’s existence and original jurisdiction is at Congressional discretion.
Its original jurisdiction is:
So, yes, Congress could abolish the federal courts except the Supreme Court, and strip the Supreme Court of anything other than these cases.
https://twitter.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1050615215589474304
Facebook and now Twitter took down the “Free Thought Project” apparently because of “voter suppression”. The “voter suppression” was due to the page posting memes encouraging people not to vote.
They literally have no knowledge about libertarians at all. This is ridiculous
FTP is pretty out there, not that they deserve getting shut down.
Sure, but “Voting is Useless” is a saying that’s as American as apple pie or Kate Upton
Hmmm, kate Upton’s pie…
/Homer gurgle
And people like this asshole are worse than the ones actually doing the censoring:
something something principals over principles.
*faints*
The “but” negates the first part of the statement asshole.
You’d be hard-pressed to find a more tortured way to write that.
I, for one, welcome the Facebook implosion. Nobody who isn’t a raving lunatic progressive should be giving them eyeballs or clicks.
good, they are doing to themselves exactly what their competitors have been unable to do to them.
but damn these people for misusing the word “suppression”.
to suppress means to forcibly put an end to something. posting armed guards at polling stations and arresting people who show up to vote would be an example of voter suppression.
WORDS. HAVE. MEANING.
Waiter, my links are cold. And the portions are so small. I would like a refund.
She’s refunding!Better watch out they might spit in your links if you come back.
That’s because this is a trendy site. Trendy sites always have cold, small links.
Crikey, I wonder what kind of Yelp reviews this site would get.
I don’t think they factor “reported for thoughtcrime” into the ratings.
Too gay. Would not comment again.
STEVE SMITH COMMENT YOU AGAIN!!
“Facebook, Twitter Purge More Dissident Media Pages In Latest Escalation
UPDATE: Free Thought Project has, like Anti-Media, now been removed from Twitter as well as Facebook. There definitely appears to be some kind of coordination or overlap between Twitter and Facebook censors.”
https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/facebook-twitter-purge-more-dissident-media-pages-in-latest-escalation-5eeebb39e25e
“THE PURGE IS HERE: Hundreds of political social media pages deleted without warning”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4zu_QS6hK4
Think for a moment about who would want to be a censor at those companies.
“First they came for Alex Jones, and we all laughed because “he deserves it” and “they’re private companies”. Carey Wedler (other libertarian YouTuber) had her Facebook page AND Twitter accounts removed today. Dozens of other large libertarian/”right-leaning” pages were removed.”
https://twitter.com/_Kenziepuff/status/1050563911513071618
Carey Wedler
Would.
So, a purge in earnest.
There is a TV show called the Purge. Apparently it is purporting to be a criticism of conservative values. It portrays rampant violent crime as being committed by people yelling “Make America great!”.
The constant projection from the left is just breathtaking.
I haven’t watched the series. I’ve seen snippets of the movies. They are stupid daydreams about a night of lawlessness where you can kill, steal, and destroy without consequences. I could never suspend my disbelief. If somebody were to kill a member of my family during the purge, I’d hunt them down and kill them the next day. You can’t have a little lawlessness. The Left doesn’t get that point – hence Antifa.
They’re horseshit gun control propaganda films.
One scene at the end of one of the movies has the wife of the main character, who was killed just before the purge ends, calmly telling the murderers to get out of the house. And I thought… WTF? Who cares if the purge is over? Who’s going to tell on you if you kill this woman and her kids, like you’d intended, a few minutes after the whistle blows, to keep them from coming gunning for you next year?
It’s so dumb in theory and execution that only the Rick & Morty spoof makes it tolerable as a cultural touchstone.
I thought the first and third ones were good.
A guy who acts like a fascist on his own property is no less a fascist just because he can behave however he wants on his own property
It’s their own property. The thing that bothers me is that they get an implicit subsidy for that property through their CDA Section 230 exemption. That needs to stop. Why the GOP isn’t trying to do this is beyond me. The social media giants have made clear that they’re their enemies. It’s insanity to leave them protected.
This libertarian virtue signal of “It’s their property therefore I can’t criticize their fascism” is retarded.
It is their property, therefore I do not think I should be allowed to force them not to use it in this horrible, evil way, but I sure as hell can express my disgust with their actions and hope that some karmic balance gives them all ass cancer.
It is their property, therefore I do not think I should be allowed to force them not to use it in this horrible, evil way,
But, what if they do use their property in a horrible, evil way that violates someone else’s rights? I don’t think there’s anything unlibertarian about saying they can’t do it then. And the truth is social media has been a hotbed of slander and copyright infringement since its inception. They’ve gotten a pass on it on the grounds that it was the commenters doing the slander and copyright infringement and the social media companies didn’t have any say in publishing or not publishing it. But, if they’re going to pick and choose what gets published, they have the same liability for what gets published by them as any brick and mortar publisher.
they have the same liability for what gets published by them as any brick and mortar publisher.
Unfortunately this is almost no liability. Screw Roe v Wade, let’s overturn Sullivan.
They are immunized under CDMA from liability so long as they can claim that they are only removing “objectionable” content “in good faith”.
Sooner or later, somebody is going to strip them of that immunity in court, even if Congress doesn’t.
I understand , but even without CDA there is almost no way to win a defamation case under Sullivan.
Ignore me I am conflating two conversations. Although there is overlap
Sullivan only applies to public figures. Someone who has been slandered on Facebook or Twitter who isn’t a public figure doesn’t have to meet that standard to sue.
But Public figure is pretty broadly defined and has been held to include private actors who “thrust themselves into the forefront of a debate over an issue”
implicit subsidy for that property through their CDA Section 230 exemption. That needs to stop. Why the GOP isn’t trying to do this is beyond me. The social media giants have made clear that they’re their enemies. It’s insanity to leave them protected.
this notion of stripping Section 230 protection worries me. i don’t think this is a road we should travel. obviously, when the libertarian social media platforms develop and have half the country as subscribers, then the progs/leftists will openly advocate gutting Section 230.
this notion of stripping Section 230 protection worries me.
Doesn’t bother me. CDA predates these social media platforms, and was intended to protect ISPs and site hosting companies. It is also crappily drafted – “objectionable” content, whatever that is, can be deleted “in good faith”, whatever that is. That’s content management and the kind of editorial judgment that gets the little people sued for defamation.
I don’t even think the social media companies qualify because their selective application of facially neutral standards isn’t in good faith.
i’m convinced the internet will be a husk of its former self without Section 230 protection. there has to be a way to not run afoul of Section 230 and still craft lawfare against social media’s censorship.
I like the intent of Section 230, as it applies to “pure” conduits for other people’s content. But, at some point you become responsible for what is published on your platform if you are controlling the content on your platform. Section 230 does a crap job of drawing that line, and needs to be revised.
I don’t trust anyone currently occupying the positions of power in our country, or likely to hold them in the foreseeable future, with the task of revising that section of law.
The EFF has this to say about CDA Section 230:
Not only do I think the provision stands on its own, but as we move into an era when the Chinese government exerts more and more influence over the Internet and the tech sphere generally, having the U.S. stand as a bulwark of freedom against it seems to me to far outweigh the temporal losses faced on prominent social networks, which can be ameliorated by setting up alternate platforms. The bigger issue may arise when infrastructure providers force competitors off, but that may run afoul of other legal protections.
Most families share finances. That doesn’t make them socialists.
That having been said, Zuckerberg is no Bill Gates (and Gates today is nothing like Gates ca. 1995).
So, they are publishers now, so they can be sued, correct?
Well, they can probably call actual spam factories “objectionable content” and remove them “in good faith” and retain their CDA immunity.
However, at some point curating content based on the political views expressed in that content should take them out of the “in good faith” requirement, if not the “objectionable content” requirement.
I’m going to join facebook, so I can get kicked off like all the cool kids.
Amy Winehouse’s hologram will tour with a live band in 2019
They’re going to need holographic speedballs to keep her going.
How long until I – I mean we, as a society, heh – can get holographic porn?
Fucking creepy, let the dead stay dead for Christ’s sake.
I was assured this never happens.
A Pennsylvania couple is suing the parents of five “mean girls”, and a school district, for how their son was treated when he was falsely accused of rape.
I don’t know about the lawsuit but the school certainly should expell those psychotic girls and the DA should consider charges. They need to be held to account for what they did.
Don’t hold your breath.
If we’re going to have sex offender registries, maybe false accusers deserve a place on them.
That’s actually a pretty good idea.
OTOH maybe we shouldn’t give women a reason not to admit the lie… Christ, I don’t know. There seems to be no defense in the negative against an allegation of sexual misconduct: I can’t say, “She can’t prove it,” because she’s not expected to: I’m simply considered guilty on her say-so. If she conspires with a friend or friends, I may as well hang myself. My only hope is that she or her friends reconsider.
I’m imaging the women having to knock on the new neighbors’ doors and explain that she falsely accused a man of rape.
“Thanks for letting me know, I’ll be sure to never be alone with you. Ever.”
Not that that actually matters anymore.
If she conspires with a friend or friends, I may as well kill them all andhang myself.
When you think about it, its a miracle nobody whose life has been wrecked with a false accusation hasn’t gone the murder/suicide route.
I think the requisite state of mind for murder-suicide is more evidenced by the false-accusers than the falsely accused.
I bet it has, but we haven’t heard about it because:
a. the suicide/murder was looked upon as “proof” that the accusation was real
or
b. most media is extremely reticent to publish stories of recanted accusations, and when they do it doesn’t get anywhere near the coverage as the accusation did.
If there is no downside, this will continue. It may burn itself out, but this sort of behavior well predates the #metoo movement, and so I doubt it will die with it, either.
OTOH maybe we shouldn’t give women a reason not to admit the lie…
That’s solvable. Set a time limit, before which she gets the current slap on the wrist, if she comes forward and admits it. If she gets caught in the lie or if she only admits it after the “expiration”, she gets thrown to the wolves. Then the incentives all run to admitting the truth.
I hope the courts pay off the kid and his family so badly that the girls in question are in hock up to their eye teeth for the rest of their lives (I would say “reduced to turning tricks on a Philly street corner”, but hookers sound like better persons than these “girls”). The problem is you know nothing of the sort is going to happen. The idea of punishing women for false accusations seems to be anathema to some segment of our society that I just can’t figure out.
it would prevent victims from coming forward!
/proggie asshat
I always ask why? If you were really sexually assaulted, report the crime immediately so the authorities can collect evidence. And definitely in cases of rape, also go to a medical facility and get checked (not just to get evidence, but to make sure you are not infected with some horrible disease). If you choose not to report it or seek medical attention after a rape, for whatever reason, you are basically undermining your case. Sorry to be blunt as shit about this, but people that don’t avail themselves of the options that would allow them to get legal redress, for whatever reason, are doing far more harm to their own cause than anything else.
“There are no perfect victims” seems like license to have no bar an accuser has to clear. “So she waited two years, carried on by all accounts an amicable relationship with her abuser, never breathed a word of the assault to anyone, never filed a police report, never sought medical attention, but when they split up and she has cause for malice, she suddenly discovers she was a victim. So what? She say she believes she is, so she must be.”
It’s horseshit. Just because insurance fraud is prosecuted, it doesn’t discourage people from filing legitimate claims. They just want to insure that women can make false accusations without consequence.
They just want to insure that women can make false accusations without consequence.
That really does seem to be the case. And it would be one thing if it were just the radical feminists pushing this. But, its not. If you look, you wind up seeing it across the board. Even when accusations get proven false, the accuser is still given anonymity, even as the actual victim (the accused) is pretty much doxxed. Hell, even after the accusation is proven false, they’re often still referred to as victims. And in the rare case where the false accuser is even reprimanded, it’s usually on the grounds of wasting government resources or “making actual victims less likely to be believed”. The fact that they completely destroyed an innocent person’s life isn’t even an afterthought.
Mattress girl comes to mind. That was just plain fucking wrong.
Tawana Brawley, “Jackie” from UVA, the Duke Lacrosse stripper…
it would prevent victims from coming forward!
Yeah, I’ve heard that one before. Honestly, the only answer I can give is why would you not want to NOT want to prevent false accusers from “coming forward”?
Because false accusations only hurt subhuman so-called “men”.
In their minds, its better than ten men get falsely accused than one rape go unreported.
I can’t remember whether it was Ezra Klein or one of the other chucklefuck progressive edgelords pretending to be serious journalists, but the “few broken eggs” theory he put forward in preparation for the #MeToo omelette pretty much summed up their stance on false accusation. It’s a religion, and the unbelievers will be punished.
“For those keeping score at home, in the last 24 hours folks on CNN and MSNBC have called Kanye: 1) dumb 2) mentally ill 3) a house negro 4) a token 5) a minstrel 6) a white supremacist”
https://twitter.com/TomBevanRCP/status/1050735293387685888
“MSNBC calls Kanye West a “White Supremacist” for Meeting with Trump.”
https://twitter.com/MarkDice/status/1050581911062466560
“This is white supremacy by ventriloquism.”
+1 false consciousness
+1 Clayton Bigsby
Since they are uneducated, they don’t realize that Uncle Tom was beaten to death by other slaves.
These fuckers sure are scared more African Americans might figure out that they are slaves of the dnc….
Black people aren’t energized to vote Democrat by screaming white harpies? Hard to believe.
They are TERRIFIED by him.
I’m loving this. How crazy and unhinged are the likes of CNN and MSNBC going to get…?
It’s starting to look kinda like peak derp, it goes on without end.
Which is really odd, to be honest. Kanye West doesn’t pose a threat to them. They are manufacturing an enemy entirely out of whole cloth.
HAHAHAHAHA
Good.
this is how you alienate black voters and get more Trump.
“MSNBC calls Kanye West a ‘White Supremacist’ for Meeting with Trump” should be on every local newscast but it won’t be.
the Gosnell movie opens today if anyone needs that little extra shove to get over the hump and finally kill themselves.
^definitely a thread fail but also appropriate b/c it falls under the category “should be on local newscast but won’t be”.
Birthday boobies for me!
http://archive.is/WwVB1
And because it’s my birthday, a double dose.
http://archive.is/wX2BJ
Happy? Birthday
Oh it’ll be happy alright.
Happy birthday. May all the boobies you encounter on this day have their own gravitational field.
Happy birthday, booby bearing buddy!
May your birthday go like this
That’s the plan.
Happy Boobies, I mean birthday to you Q!
Happy
BirthBoobday!Happy Birthday !
Happy birthday!
I always thought OnStar was creepy. Maybe I should have thought the same about SiriusXM.
https://news.radio-online.com/cgi-bin/rol.exe/headline_id=n36019
I love my SXM. I choose to put my head in the sand and not click.
“Stephen Elliott Sues Moira Donegan, Creator of Shitty Media Men List
Stephen Elliott, a New Orleans–based writer is suing Moira Donegan, the creator of the Shitty Media Men List for libel and emotional distress. Elliott filed documents at the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York on October 10 and is seeking at least $1.5 million in damages.
“Upon information and belief, Defendants conspired to create the Google Spreadsheet entitled ‘Shitty Media Men’ and circulated the link to the List via email, without password protection, for the stated purpose of encouraging the female recipients to anonymously publish allegations of sexual misconduct by men,” reads the complaint. “The wholly unsubstantiated allegations published in the List, particularly with regard to allegations about Plaintiff, contained numerous false statements alleging criminal sexual conduct on the part of Plaintiff.”
According to the suit, Elliott also intends to sue other women who contributed to the Google spreadsheet (who he names as “Jane Does”), which briefly circulated last October and contained the names of over of 70 men who were anonymously accused of sexual misconduct, ranging from rape to harassment: “Plaintiff believes that information obtained in discovery will reveal the Jane Doe Defendants’ true names, addresses and other identifying information and allow Plaintiff to amend this Complaint to state the same”.
Elliott intends to subpeona the Google metadata for the list in order to obtain this information:”
https://www.thecut.com/2018/10/stephen-elliott-sues-moira-donegan.html
Same story posted in previous thread, but not Jezebel.
Again, I hope he wins. Personally, if I were a juror, I’d tack on a good $20-30 million in punitives to make sure she never gets out of the hole.
Yup. Interesting legal conundrum to be solved around whether the creators of the list actually have responsibility for what other people put on it. But I suspect they are suing the creator mostly to get discovery into who the anonymous contributors are.
Unlike some libertarians, I think defamation should have legal consequences.
I’ve come all the way around on this. We shouldn’t go old school English law where accidental trivial inaccuracies open the door to defamation, but Sullivan went way too far and needs to be overturned. If you make false statements that damage a person you should pay damages. Allow an affirmative defense of good faith for speakers who made reasonable efforts to confirm the truth of the statement before making it, but the efforts have to be reasonable (No calling the subject 15 min before air time and then reporting that they did not respond to requests)
It’s one reason I’m a bad libertarian (or maybe not even that), one of those areas where I think, well, this wouldn’t be necessary if libertarian thinking prevailed. And Communism would have worked if only the New Soviet Man could be found.
“.@realDonaldTrump, we the undersigned Members of Congress respectfully request that you consider replacing Ambassador Nikki Haley with…
Nobody
#amexit #unexit #sassywithmassie #MAGA”
https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1050465154700333056
Then turn the building into a Trump Hotel.
And casino. Also, make it a carved out piece of no-man’s land right on the FDR but not in any way subject to the jurisdiction of NYS, NYC, or NY County (Like the old Cuban Consulate at Lex & 38th where everyone had to cross the street because the Cubans wouldn’t let anyone use the sidewalk).
Shit. Rumbled.
Give all foreign officials and staff 24 hours to leave the country, then round up any stragglers and dump them on the Canadian border.
Give all foreign officials and staff 24 hours to leave the country, then round up any stragglers and dump them on the Canadian border.
Or, take them outside US jurisdiction by the shortest route, which would be twelve miles offshore.
Can we use a really big catapult?
*sproioioioing*
I was thinking helicopters, but if you can twelve miles of range from a catapult, go right ahead.
Where there’s a will?
https://youtu.be/e-V0dKwyu6E?t=133
I think a trebuchet building contest is in order.
Or we could do it ala Punkin’ Chunkin’. Different classes for different methods; catapult, trebuchet, gas powered, etc…
I’m on board with that plan. Kick ’em out too and turn the UN into a Trump casino and resort.
If we turn it into a house of ill repute, it will be serving the same function going forward as it is now….
Nonsense. A house of prostitution has a level of honesty that the UN can never provide.
Top comment:
Interesting that this somewhat describes America’s founding.
conspiracy theory nut jobs
Would that be like someone who believes the President conspired with Putin to rig the election?
Why don’t you and the rest of the conspiracy theory nut jobs move to an island, form your own country, and then shut yourself off from the rest of world.
You know, the funny thing is, I could imagine that happening. Said island would become very successful due to capital infusions from people who’d want to put their money outside the grasp of governments and others looking to exploit the opportunities a low-tax, low-regulation environment would provide. And these same assholes would be insisting that it was grossly unfair that the libertarians were abandoning their societies and would insist that the libertarian island should be invaded.
You can live off a battery
?
Screw that. Take a page from the prog playbook. Wear it as a skinsuit and demand deference.
Defund the UN, shrink the remit and agencies, remove diplomatic status from rank & file employees of the UN itself, tax same employees and require that they have valid work permits to be here. Castrate the UN secretary general into a empty figure head whose only responsibility is a seating chart. Unplug the video & audio for the assembly chamber and let every tinpot kleptocrat make speeches to dead air.
The biggest mistake would be to leave it as it and expel the UN. Without the US’s thumb on the scales to somewhat check the absolute insanity of nation-state “democracy”, the UN would be a completely tyrannical institution providing “legal” cover for Nazi or Soviet level authoritarianism.
These links suck. I want my money back.
*Points to sign* “All sales final, no refunds.”
In honor of the most hated Uncle Tom negro white supremacist and the theme song for my bday.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YpuRIgt6gc
I figured you’d go with this https://youtu.be/3Vn2xrSG24w
Do you like fish sticks?
Notice they aren’t saying crap about Jim Brown meeting with Trump? Because he’s Jim fucking Brown.
Because if you’re a woman he might beat you up?
Does getting hit by Brown make one into a woman? Because he seems to not be so discriminate about whom he assaults.
I’m mostly familiar with his record of beating on women, If he also popped a few dudes I wouldn’t be surprised. I’m old-fashioned in that hitting women is worse, unless it’s a stone-cold sucker punch, that’s a bitch move up there with slapping around your girl.
Other than Q, no birthdays? Here’s a couple: MLB Hall-of-Famers Joe Cronin (who belongs there) and Rick Farrell (who doesn’t, IMO).
No birthdays, but today is:
National Gumbo Day
and
World Egg Day
Yum.
https://glibertarians.com/2017/04/making-cooking-easy-and-your-day-better-louisiana-gumbo-edition/
I forgot to add garlic into the recipe. I just noticed that. Dammit.
Hugh Jackman
Aleister Crowley
Bode Miller
Luciano Pavarotti
Lara Trump (Q White Supremacist confirmed)
King Edward VI
Opinion: Democracy Will Fail If We Don’t Find Common Ground Between Coastal Elites and the Rust-Brained Inbred Dum Dums in the Middle Part of the Country
Fess up, Glibs. Which one of you is writing for The Hard Times?
Definitely written by a glib. The Zardoz reference gives it away
Meh. Trying to parody them anymore is a waste of effort. Any Hillary speech beats that.
He knows Pope Jimbo?
You wacky Nodakasodans and your feuds.
LOL from the sidebar:
Opinion: I Accept My Son’s Decision to Be Openly Gay. I Just Don’t Buy Him as a Top
Whelp, I’m sorta drunk so I’ll share a Dad-ism! Me and my buddies were sneaking downstairs with beer (clink clink) and the old man opens the door and asks “What the occasion? Tuesday night?” clink clink