Email from ZARDOZ
One thing you really don’t want popping into your mailbox, here at Glibs, is an email from ZARDOZ. He is not happy with all the dire things he has been reading in the comments – He has expressed supreme displeasure with the lack of CLEANSING of the filth of brutals… where are the promised riots, bombings, and death camps? Well, I am not going to go talk with him face to face. I am just going to do some links and get the heck out of here! Maybe you can all deal with him later in the week.
- But…but, hero governor and wonder mayor fixed this with lockdowns, chasing Jews and masks!!!!??? Maybe they just need to
start a pogrombe stricter? I am sure the City can take closing everything down for good! - You first… and I mean when they get more than a short ride.
- So we do look like we have some good news for ZARDOZ (if not for the Armenians). Somebody tell the Armenians how mighty Russia is, and how they need to ally with them again?
Uf weiderluge!
The email from ZARDOS wound up in the spam folder and got deleted. I am working with IT to clean up this mess. Can ZARDOS please resend?
please do the needful and revert back at your earliest convenience, Mr. ZARDOS
ZARDOS – the PC OS we would’ve gotten if both Q-DOS and MS-DOS had been properly cleansed.
The Russian knock-off would be TSARDOS, da?
Not as tasty as DOSIDOS.
Ah, yes, the old-style country and western version.
Competed against the Mexican DOSEQUIS.
Dos Equis didn’t make the list 🙁
https://beerandbrewing.com/beer-pairings-for-girl-scout-cookies-2016-update/
So virgin is fucking with human passengers?
Are they going to have to change their name now?
Not sure we need to ask Zardoz whether losing your anal virginity counts.
Its not like there’s a hymen there.
Does this evacuated tube make my capsule bigger and harder?
Once a tube evacuates, it tends to have the opposite reaction.
Just like evacuating your bowels.
Look man, NYC is getting another wave because Trump.
Yeah well your headyness the mobs are waiting for the court cases, to figure out whether it is supposed to be a celebratory riot, or a mourning riot.
It just occurred to me, with Trump leaving, Hong Kong lost what little hope they had 🙁
Yep. And Israel is going to go the back of the bus.
The split between American Jews and Israel is probably going to get even wider.
Not to worry Gauleiter De Blasio has a solution.
Bezirskleiter.
Cuomo is a Gualeiter. DeBlasio is only a mere Bezirksleiter.
Not even that. Just a Bürgermeister.
It’s a difficult responsibility.
lol
Ah. I started using Bezirksleiter based on this list which didn’t show Burgermeister, but this article says Burgermeister was used.
Looks like Ortsgruppenleiter is the Nazified equivalent of mayor. It’s hard to read through that article and keep a straight face.
Meisterburger
HEH! I remember watching that when I was a kid.
Finally.
I wouldn’t bet on it. They’re probably fucked either way but with Trump and TDS the Democrats don’t have to care.
The kissing of commie ass is going to be disgusting.
Yes
If it wasn’t apparent before, it’s blindingly obvious now that the Chinese intend to destabilize the West for their own ends.
NYC ‘dangerously close’ to second COVID-19 wave, de Blasio says
Clearly you need to shut everything down and destroy the economy.
Well the economy, for the large part didn’t need all the corono-bucks dumped onto it and especially didn’t need the additional trillions they were thinking of giving out. Government needs to prove that the economy is fragile and only Government money will save it.
We will see massive bailouts to the cities.
BIDEN TO REST OF AMERICA: DROP DEAD
In my head I always hear the word “Azerbaijan” read by Dana Carvey doing a Johnny Carson impression.
You’re fired.
I am pleased to announce that Christopher C. Miller, the highly respected Director of the National Counterterrorism Center (unanimously confirmed by the Senate), will be Acting Secretary of Defense, effective immediately..
…Chris will do a GREAT job! Mark Esper has been terminated. I would like to thank him for his service.
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One thing I will be happy about with the Biden presidency is no more policy announcements from fucking Twitter.
It’s better than filtered through the media.
No instead you will have to deal with the media preempting everything to tell you all about it, see the football game hijaked for the empty victory rally.
The warning comes after thousands of New Yorkers took to the streets with hardly any social distancing over the weekend in celebration after Joe Biden was declared the winner of the 2020 presidential election.
De Blasio and city health officials said there’s been little evidence linking outdoor gatherings with people who wear masks to COVID-19 outbreaks, and added that indoor events where people do not wear masks pose a far larger risk of spreading the virus.
Revelers rejoicing over Biden’s win were seen largely masked across the city, but still huddled together in big groups.
“Increasingly, the concern is more and more people indoors,” de Blasio said.
Ban the indoors, force everyone outside.
Bill has inadvertently stumbled on the obvious thing that I and others noted six months ago. This thing passes between family members yakking at each other at home. And you’re not going to “fight” it without taking far more draconian measures.
you’re not going to “fight” it without taking far more draconian measures.
there are two ways to react to this. I suspect you and De Blasio chose differently.
Who the fuck is lame enough to celebrate the victory of an empty headed senile old man?
The people who want to put your kids in camps.
In our little town on Saturday night everyone was supposed to go on to their porch at 6pm and scream “You’re fired!” Classy.
No one voted “for” Biden. He would have gotten the exact same number of votes if his name had been “not Trump”.
Sanctimonious prick.
I truly sympathize with those dealing with losing — it’s not easy — but at a certain point one has to think not only about what’s best for the nation (peaceful transfer of power) but how any future employers might see your character defined during adversity.
Let’s go back four years….
That’s different because reasons.
“but how any future employers might see your character defined during adversity”….okay the Right was definitely dicks in 2016 when Trumpolo stole the election, but did media hacks ever threaten this way? I know the whole lock her up and such, but that was for actual criminal activity, not what he is talking about, and that is merely supporting Trump or wanting it to play out in the courts.
That is the crime they are going after the right for, thought crime.
They desperately want a social credit score.
That’s why I will fight this shit to the end.
Biden already said he wants to create a new federal agency “Public Credit Reporting Agency” to compete with the three private ones. My guess is lawyers said nah, we can’t make those private entities include a ‘social’ score — so lets create our own.
“provide consumers with a government option that seeks to minimize racial disparities,”
LOL really? People are going to be shocked when they wake up and realize all the plans kind old Uncle Joe has for them.
It ain’t Joe.
True. But he’s the mouthpiece, for now.
No they did not. Oh, and as always, the media left is talking about normal ordinary people.
Remember, the media vetted Joe the Plumber more than they vetted Barack Obama.
So far three media heads have said it, with one being a former Biden staffer I believe. Rubin I think is the loudest activist to round up everyone.
The proscription list is of course an Impulse of AOC style Left, and not really surprising. I’m curious, now that they have secured Biden’s victory, if the NY Dems decide to nix her district, forcing her to compete against another candidate, or solidify control in the state even more and get rid of a GOP district.
Hey buddy, stop saying that. It hasn’t happened yet.
After Hyperbole’s comic, i consider this a threat.
They’re not going to nix her district if they can avoid it. They’ll nix Stefanik’s up in the north country.
Hyperloop should get together with that euthenasia coaster designer.
And what is the cost per mile travelled on that thing so far?
So, if you take a short ride on a hyperloop, is it on a short bus?
Short Ride on a Fast Machine
Played it in 1986, beginning my love of John Adams music and minimalism in general.
It’s easy to play once you know what it’s supposed to be but fucking impossible to sightread.
So, if you take a short ride on a hyperloop, is it on a short bus?
All the way down to the molecular level, with those tiny charged particles, a short ride on a hyper-loop is called a hyper-ion.
Man, I thought I was harsh toward Hyperion the other day, but I stopped short of putting him on the short bus.
He deserved what ever shit you gave him.
I missed that. I’m still here.
Missed it? You didn’t miss it, you riffed on it several times the next day.
Remind me. I only remember that I forced you to vote for Trump for your own good and you were ungrateful.
And then you don’t like Cachaca, which is all gay and shit.
I used you and Allex as my examples of people going over the top about Trump. It wasn’t actually harsh, I was just setting up the joke response to C. Anacreon. But apparently the set up swallowed the joke.
I think I was drunk.
Over the top about Trump, now?
A lot of people will be wishing the hell we still have Trump after Biden and his goons try to go full on authoritarian, what they accused Trump of, which he never did.
De Blasio and city health officials said there’s been little evidence linking outdoor gatherings with people who wear masks to COVID-19 outbreaks, and added that indoor events where people do not wear masks pose a far larger risk of spreading the virus.
I suspect the evidence that people not wearing masks are to blame is horseshit. He should try selling me a bridge as I’d be more likely to believe him.
At the rate the city budget is collapsing that might not be out of the question.
…unless it’s a motorcycle rally in some weird, far-away place.
Oh, Megan.
Kelly began her comments Sunday morning by responding to Biden’s tweet where he declared: “A nation united. A nation strengthened. A nation healed. The United States of America.”
“Written like a man who’s been in his basement for a year,” Kelly replied, going on to address multiple attacks about her tweet.
From the sidebar of the hyperloop link:
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2020/11/09/McDonalds-to-roll-out-new-McPlant-faux-meat-patty-next-year/4911604949812/
Honestly, if I were to bet on a company that would come up with something lowest-common-denominator-delicious, McD’s would be up there.
McPlant is a terrible name though.
iPad
McPutz might be a winner.
True, but at least it’s an honest one. A lot of the way fake-meat products are named gives the impression that their mongers are rather ashamed of what it really is.
Fucking people. We went from beef to “grass fed beef” to just skipping the cow altogether and eating the fucking grass. I’m ashamed to be a human.
People are calling out Katy Perry after she urged fans to reach out to family ‘who do not agree’ with election results
The singer urged her followers to call their families, following the projected results, which named Democratic nominee Joe Biden the president-elect, and now people on Twitter are accusing her of ignoring the election’s polarizing nature.
“The first thing I did when the presidency was called is text and call my family members who do not agree and tell them I love them and am here for them,” Perry tweeted on Sunday. “Call your family today. Happy Sunday.”
But some people didn’t appreciate that the singer appeared to be glossing over some of the more difficult parts of the election — and Donald Trump’s presidency, which was littered with white supremacy, sexism and racism.
Time to unite and heal.
“…which was littered with white supremacy, sexism and racism” sigh. They won that battle too effectively to even try to combat it anymore.
They can’t uncork that bottle. Try as they might, they have whipped their social media shitheads into a frenzy over the last decade. It is not going to stop anytime soon.
In fact, it will not stop until a significant portion of leftists feel the same pain that they have sought to inflict on people who don’t agree with them.
Rather, they can’t put the cork back in that bottle.
They won’t feel the pain though. Like, this is one of the things I have an issue with, this idea that “oh just wait until they get turned on!!!” They won’t get turned on. They really wont. As long as you keep towing the lion, wherever you are ordered by the Screens to tow it, you won’t get turned on. Remember, even in the Great Terror, the majority of the Russians kept their heads down, nodded at the right parts of Party meetings, and lived their lives, and that was during the height of totalitarianism.
Every single corporate HR department will be staffed with true believers, and they will go through the social media of applicants and throw out the resumes of all the MAGA crowd. They will fire people when they hear about their hobbies of shooting guns, or their attendance at problematic churches. The Cuck Right and the Reason Crowd will insist that this is just The Free Market At Work, as we head into our 2nd year of COVID lockdowns for all “non essential businesses”. Then, when all restaurants are Taco Bell we can all conform our society to the benevolent rule of Dr Raymond Cocteau, and find that vicious wrecker Edgar Friendly.
I watched it recently, and I was struck by the same observation. How the fuck did Demolition Man predict a future that seemed absurd in its own day but seems increasingly likely in ours?
My above comment notwithstanding, I don’t think this is “the free market at work”. There are state actors, domestic and foreign, at play behind the scenes. Call me a tinfoil hatter, but the market action is a façade. Some of it is just structurally inherited (bad court decisions compounded by even worse interpretations of them; bad legislation and administrative rulings enforced by petty, spiteful people; etc.), but the driver of it is actively malicious actions that are outside the “bounds” of the system as we see it. Put another way, Mark Felt was one disgruntled guy in his day, whereas today, we have a million Mark Felts today, and a thousand PRC-funded mouthpieces besides.
“littered with white supremacy, sexism and racism”
People actually believe this.
They actually put that in the article as a statement of fact.
Doddering Joe premised his campaign on the Charlottesville lie and he repeated it daily up to and including on election day. He will not be called on it.
Without evidence.
The most frustrating part of this election for me was the virulent hatred so many people I know have for what the media have convinced them Trump is. And how they never thought deeper about it than that.
Not one of them would be interested in a discussion of Trump’s policies or even how great it is that there have been no new wars during his presidency. No, instead it was all of them saying virtually in unison that they were “sickened that anyone could vote for a racist fascist dictator who puts children in cages.” Biden could literally have campaigned on a 99% income tax rate and none of them would have noticed, they still would have voted for him, anything to get that horrible man out of office. I even tried asking one to give examples of his racism or fascism; the response was a loud, exasperated, “come on! EVERYONE knows it!””
I’ve been riffing on this a lot recently. Bet one of these automatons 10 bucks that Biden/Harris/Whoever will have us in another foreign war in the next three years. Watch how cute it is as they give you the RCA Victor dog head tilt of noncomprehension, trying to do the math on how the Party of Peace they voted for could possibly support foreign adventures.
“Time to unite and heal.”
Lots of mixed messaging going on. We have to “Unite’ and “heal” but also we need proscritpion lists and accountability.
I guess the “Healing” part is the part where you expunge the “Virus”. Via Cattle cars.
Some get healing some get camping. Something for everyone at Bravenew World.
Dow and S&P are up. Not sure if that’s due to news of a covid vaccine, or defense stocks.
Because the Biden government will spend tons of money in stupid stimulus programs to protect cities and states (that are political allies) from years or dumb decisions. The inflation is being prefactored in.
Maybe they just need to
start a pogrombe stricter?I understand the first step is, normally, walled ghettos.
Before we wall up NYC though, we’ll need to dig an escape tunnel with a monocole-locked door for Rhywun et. al.
My eyes can’t roll back any harder reading this shit.
Bill and Andy are loosening their neckties and rolling up their sleeves getting ready to give the ‘vid what’s for.
Fucking ridiculous.
Don’t we have to sew something on to our jackets first so it’s easy to tell who needs to go to the ghetto?
+1 Orange Star
I was hoping covid could be over since OMB has been defeated, but then I remembered that the point is control.
“The election is over. … I won’t be president until January 20, but my message today is to everyone,” Biden told those in attendance. “It doesn’t matter who you voted … we can save tens of thousands of lives if everyone would just wear a mask for the next few months.”
“Not Democrat or Republican lives, but American lives,” Biden added.
He proceeded to argue that “the goal of mask-wearing is not to make your life less comfortable or take something away from you,” but rather a way to get “back to normal as fast as possible.”
“Please, I implore you: wear a mask. Do it for yourself. Do it for your neighbor,” Biden said. “A mask is not a political statement, but it is a good way to start pulling the country together.”
Coming from the party that wouldn’t hestiate to take everything away from you if it ensured they had power… :Preses X for Doubt:
the goal of mask-wearing is not to make your life less comfortable or take something away from you
That’s just a happy side effect. Why, without that, how could we prove we are in complete control?
“the goal of mask-wearing is not to make your life less comfortable or take something away from you,”
Our intentions are noble.
They beat us because they love us so much.
Yeah, sure, and be sure to not visit with your family and loved ones this holiday season, because we hate you and them too.
It’s time for healing, utopia has arrived.
“… we can save tens of thousands of lives if everyone would just wear a mask for the next few months.”
Thanks for saving this until after the election.
I remember Biden making noise about nationwide mask mandates before the election.
Go fuck yourself you lying cunt.
We could get back to normal today, with a single pronouncement. But you and your courtiers don’t want to get back to normal.
I don’t particularly mind that the government abuses me, I’ve never expected anything else. But I do mind being asked to cheer for the abuse.
The purpose of the mask is exactly what he says: conformity. The mask is a symbol yes, but the fact that everybody wears it is also a symbol.
“Go fuck yourself you lying cunt.”
It’s time for state governments to start saying this to fed gov.
I think I can hear the faint but growing rumble of 50 ballot harvesting machines ramping up.
That’s really the only positive way forward, and has been for a long time.
May we finally get back to some normalcy.
Coming soon: A restoration of normal relations between the president and the press corps?
Well, President-elect Joe Biden is not going to call the media the “enemy of the people,” that’s for sure. …
During the general election campaign, Trump was widely accessible but wildly dishonest, spreading lies through the media’s megaphones. Biden was less accessible but more truthful, though gaffe-prone and vulnerable to out-of-context attacks. So what now? How accessible will the president-elect be? On “Reliable Sources,” ABC chief WH correspondent Jon Karl said this:
“One symbol that I think would be very powerful and very important is for the Biden transition to begin immediately to hold regular press briefings. They haven’t done that as a campaign. It should happen now. It’s the media’s job to show that we ask tough questions of whoever is in power. We have certainly done that with Donald Trump. Now it’s certainly time to do it with President-Elect Biden.” Karl pointed out that “steps need to be taken to be sure everything is done safely” due to the pandemic, but it’s doable…
Because you will be fellating him constantly. Not to imply that CNN’s resident eunuch is gay. Because he totally isn’t. He has a wife and everything.
The media heads really really think that with Trump out of power it will go back to 2008.
Of course. 50% of the country will just forget that for 4 years they were called white supremacists simply because they voted for the wrong person.
Why not mittens forgot the he wants to put y’all back in chains comment.
Some people will do a lot for power.
Indeed. Let’s not forget where Romney was after the last election.
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Lololololololol
They could start by not calling him “President-Elect” when the electoral college hasn’t voted yet.
Now it’s certainly time to do it with President-Elect Biden.
But not during the election. Heavens no.
Oh, it’s time to do it all right. Not my president, get the fuck out, you Nazi!
President Biden, what lessons did you learn as the Lightbringer’s disciple, and how will those lessons lead you to ever greater triumphs over the evil Republican wreckers?
“Reminder.
Six months before the election, Google switched off traffic to @BreitbartNews
on searches about Joe Biden.
The traffic did not decline gradually. It went to ZERO overnight, and stayed there.
The people at Google are ELECTION STEALERS.”
https://twitter.com/LibertarianBlue/status/1325522963941060608
It’s not election interference if you control the meaning of the phrase.
we can save tens of thousands of lives if everyone would just wear a mask for the next few months.
he claimed, without evidence.
Science!
Sure, there are studies saying they don’t work, and some evidence to suggest they’re counterproductive. But there’s also studies saying they do work, so according to science we pick the ones that make us feel good, and claim the others are just dangerous disinformation.
We believe in science that agrees with our biases.
So, without giving the game away, I also write for what is now a kinda liberal website, but which used to cater to all concerns. And I wrote a piece the other day about half the country thinks the election was stolen, that the election was close and that both parties doesn’t really help in the situation. Something like that.
The left has gone crazy over the idea that was a close election. The mere idea that we as a country are divided, and that half of the country didn’t hate Trump is driving them bonkers.
It would be funny if it didn’t auger poorly for the next four years.
I’m curious: why don’t they think it was a close election?
Because in that kind of mindset, Evil can never be allowed to even be close to winning. To acknowledge it is to say that evil is powerful, something desirable, and you cannot say evil is desirable.
So not even a facade of attempted “facts”? A conspiracy theory? Nothing but Big Orange is so deplorable he could not possibly have come close to winning an election?
With the average person’s perceptions of politics you are not dealing with reason. You are dealing with feelings. To be told that your party barely won is to be told that there are a lot of people who disagree with you. This is anathema to most people. Most americans have been conditioned into believing that if you can’t get almost everyone to agree then there is something wrong.
I partially put the blame on a huge emphasis of people like engineers and scientists who like to pretend that “their being one correct answer” makes their discipline better than others.
IMO, this is close but not quite there. Its the wrapping of inherently subjective, artistic practices (like sociology, psychology, politics, and economics to an extent) in a facade of SCIUNSS that has led to the 19th-21st century obsession with technocrats. It can be measured thus it must be optimized.
Because they want to claim a mandate. If the country is is split evenly, there is no mandate
+94% of people who identify with libertarian ideas
/Hihn
I laughed
The left has gone crazy over the idea that was a close election. The mere idea that we as a country are divided, and that half of the country didn’t hate Trump is driving them bonkers.
A fun little fact is that Trump got more votes than Obama. Now, the country is 7% bigger, and Trump did not get 7% more votes than Obama, but it’s still a fun fact to bandy about. Biden did get essentially the same support as Obama, which is kinda crazy. I guess hate voting is as powerful as love voting.
The fact that you said “kinda” liberal excludes Ordinary Times.
https://twitter.com/jiveDurkey/status/1325873438418989058
In 2016 the Media vilified Facebook and other social media for getting trump elected. They spent 4 years making sure that the new found Alternative News sources were brought into the fold and curated.
Now they are mad that people are leaving.
this splintering is dangerous
How?
If you started a new newspaper, would that be “dangerous”?
If you started a new blog, would that be “dangerous”?
Why is it “dangerous” to go out and find a new platform?
In a few short years, we’ve gone from the public sphere is open to everyone to anything other than curated content in walled gardens is “dangerous”.
Yes, you can’t let the proles leave the walled garden, they might start thinking of things their betters don’t like.
Dangerous is a bit strong, but it’s not good. It’s not new either and there’s nothing one can do about it anyway. People don’t like having their beliefs challenged and do end up in echo chambers. It would be nice if people listened to all evidence and opinions tried to understand opposing views and thought things out for themselves, it’s also be nice if a were a little bit taller, and a baller. None of that’s going to happen.
Personally I don’t care if there’s animus between the two sides. Or if they don’t get along. What I do fucking care about is the Democrats trying to lock down the elections across the country in the way they have done in their machine-controlled metros
That is asking for trouble, to put it lightly.
The more the two sides are split, the less likely they are to come together to fuck things up.
This. I was sick of the reaching across the aisle to fuck us all over a long fucking time ago, and hopefully it never returns.
Last time two sides split all the way they managed to come together at places like Antietam, Spottsylvania, Manassas, and Gettysburg.
It would be nice if people listened to all evidence and opinions tried to understand opposing views and thought things out for themselves
In principle, I don’t disagree; this is the platonic ideal of a liberal society. But staying on Twitter or splitting off from it has nothing to do with this goal. Twitter isn’t interested in fostering an informed liberal polity; they’re interested in giving people what they want so they can make money off them. This isn’t a cynic’s take, it’s their entire on-paper business model. Ditto other social networks and social content platforms. If they weren’t very good at giving people what they want, they wouldn’t have gotten to be multi-billion-dollar companies in the first place.
The difference between about 6 years ago and today is that 1) the social media Overton window has narrowed and 2) the sphere of what is “non-political” has shrunk on social media. It is not that everyone is being exposed to all sides and all pieces of information; it is that certain people get to keep their echo chambers (and thus the flow of $$$ from them to big ad-funded tech) while others get to have their echo chambers invaded (which hasn’t really impacted the flow of $$$ from them to big ad-funded tech all that much, at least not yet).
It is worth noting that the original flashpoint, if you will, was over video games and not politics. This didn’t start out as Democrats vs. Republicans arguing over election results or COVID-19 or what have you. And it ended up in the same place: “lefties” get to create and keep their echo chambers, “righties” get marginalized, told they need to speak less and listen more, and get algorithms directed to funnel them away from their own likes.
I’d say the right response to someone who openly dislikes you and your opinions is to leave the platform they control. There is a know-thy-enemy value to sticking around, sure, but it’s of decreasing utility when you just become a punching bag for the people who never have to leave their own echo chambers.
Not only are you a punching bag but each click on those platforms helps line the pockets of the one punching you.
People don’t like having their beliefs challenged and do end up in echo chambers.
True, but if a place becomes an echo chamber (especially if it is enforced, such as through top-down moderation), then the only course of action for people who want open dialogue is to split.
Fair points all. I really wrote that just to throw out a Skee-Lo reference and see if any of you philistines would catch it. I am disappoint.
Remix!!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=idtzrDIOqN0
If you have a girl who looks good, call her.
I wish I had a rabbit in a hat with a bat
And a six four Impala
Don’t you get it? Freedom of speech is dangerous, man!
when people see news they don’t like, they split off to start their own to confirm their bias.
Well, Twitter and YouTube are supposed to be platforms (remember those?) where you could access all kinds of stuff pretty much unfiltered. People aren’t leaving them because they carry leftist crap, they carry them because they are deleting anything that is not leftist.
There’s a difference.
It’s funny because being able to get your own, personalized feed — you know, splitting off from others and seeing what you want to see, confirming your biases — was part of the appeal of social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook to begin with.
Then a bunch of people threw a shit-fit that there were unsavory things going on, and the great Social Media Must Do Something campaign began. Trends were altered, feeds were manipulated, content was suppressed then censored, and so on.
The Internet never was a place of uniform consensus. They are trying to graft a system of overbearing central control onto something that has always been decentralized and derives much of its appeal from being exactly what you want to get out of it.
I’m going to need some muscle over here. This guy doesn’t believe in Unity!
No. It’s natural, healthy, and a return to the status quo for centuries.
But how will we reach a glorious sci-fi future where everyone is wearing identical onesies if we don’t have a single source of truth?
“a return to the status quo for centuries”
I don’t think it is within the same the same country, without becoming dangerous.
Considering that this site reflects a very similar process I’m all for it. The echo chamber danger might be a bit of a concern but why stay where get nothing but shit on?
I see the NC Senate race has still not been called.
Huh. RCP has called it for Tillis, so i thought it had been, sense they still havn’t even called it for Biden yet.
Oh, my bad. I was checking it on Fox ?
There was an article in the Indianapolis paper about the “positivity rate”. I could not force myself to read much of it, but they made a big deal about it. “It’s positive results as a percentage of rests.” And then they got lost in the weeds about filtering out those who have had multiple tests.
Okay, fine but tests are not taken from a representative sample of the general population. They are overwhelmingly taken by people who have symptoms or are believed to have been exposed, and less than 10% come up positive. That should be good news, not reason to panic.
But panic is what the media craves.
Here in AZ, the positivity rate has been flat, but the number of positive tests has been increasing. That tells me what they are really measuring when they talk about the increase in cases, is the increase in testing. If testing was being done at the same level as a month ago, the number of cases would be the same as a month ago.
But there’s also studies saying they do work
Studies, or models?
The studies i am aware of have no direct link to the actual virus or its contagiousness, they’re just generic “Ooh, look. Sneeze droplets!” high school science fair level bullshit.
Yep. Not one randomized clinical trial that I’m aware of has shown that masks work. Many, including quite a few new ones focused on COVID, say they don’t.
If high school science fairs had more impact, we’d all be driving Wankel engines right now.
Ding ding. There are no scientific studies showing that wearing masks, or social distancing, by the general public has any effect on viral transmission.
There is zero correlation between the adoption of mandates (masks, social distancing, economic lockdowns) and reductions in COVID infections. This could be due to people being crap at the discipline needed to effectively wear a mask and social distance, but regardless, the mandates have failed. Just look at this “second wave” – it didn’t come after everyone lifted their mandates, it came in the middle of the mandates.
“the discipline needed to effectively wear a mask”
I’ve seen very little of that.
Biden pulled down his mask to cough.
Yeah, if your public health plan requires the public to do things they will never, ever do, you probably need a new plan.
See also, setting strict rules for passwords (or even using them as the primary mechanism in the first place), leading to less secure practices overall.
That wasn’t real social distancing. It will work when we have the right people in charge.
+ many welded doors
The left has gone crazy over the idea that was a close election. The mere idea that we as a country are divided, and that half of the country didn’t hate Trump is driving them bonkers.
They want to see themselves as having won a great victory over Evil Incarnate. They want to be loved and adored by a grateful nation, not despised and ridiculed by a bunch of lowbrow ingrates.
This is true. My recent interactions with old frat brothers indicates a sincere hatred of the rural voters.
when people see news they don’t like, they split off to start their own to confirm their bias.
“news” not same as “opinion”
hth
A lucky Minnesoda deer hunter brought hope venison and a nice purse for his wife.
““People mad at me for shooting a baby alligator. Realistically, it’s an invasive species in Minnesota,” Klocek said.
He thinks it was someone’s pet who dumped it when it got too big. Klocek plans to have both the deer and the gator hung up in his collection.”
Could it even survive winter?
Of course not. But that shouldn’t stop them from spending thousands of dollars to try to send it back to its native habitat.
Why do you use logic to make a decision?
Of course not. But that shouldn’t stop them from spending thousands of dollars to try to send it back to its native habitat.
Why do you use logic to make a decision?
When Amos Moses was a boy his daddy would use him for alligator bait.
Tie a rope around his neck, throw him in the swamp.
Oh, alligator bait in the Louisiana bayou….
Well, its a nice deer, but not a wallhanger, IMO.
Social distancing is not a light switch. It is a dial.
Jesus Fucking Christ NO
This interjection of government into our everyday lives must be resisted at all costs. We will be completely at the whim of a bunch of wannabe authoritarian bureaucrats.
Sounds legit.
It’s a cattle prod.
Come, my American brothers and sisters, join your comrades in Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom in embracing the gentle brush of the totalizing State’s hand along your winsome cheekbones…
Well, at least now any #resistance to the president will involve actually resisting actual government overreach.
I have a vague memory that Trump’s Lil Rona Panic Task Force came up with reopening criteria.
That page reads like an election campaign platform plank.
I remember back in the March time frame when Biden would criticize Trump on Covid and said if he was President he would do A, B, and C. And when I looked Trump had already done A, B, and C several weeks earlier.
I looked at Biden’s Covid plan. And most of it we are already doing. Except for the Social Justice crap and the contract tracing (which from what I remember, according to scientist is too late for anyway).
“up or down relative to the level of risk and degree of viral spread in a community”
I think there is a huge knowledge problem here.
Fuck. Off.
President-elect Biden will direct the CDC to provide specific evidence-based guidance for how to turn the dial up or down relative to the level of risk and degree of viral spread in a community, including when to open or close certain businesses, bars, restaurants, and other spaces; when to open or close schools, and what steps they need to take to make classrooms and facilities safe; appropriate restrictions on size of gatherings; when to issue stay-at-home restrictions.
HAHA, SUCKERS!
This is starting to remind one of the “color coded” homeland security levels 20 years ago. But since the War on Disease has gone even worse than the War on Terror, there will always be a reason to not have that “dial” at zero.
This
We haven’t defeated human disease and never will (at least not within a thousand years or so)? Say it ain’t so.
Feature, not bug
Pun intended.
With Biden at the helm, immortality is right around the corner.
Yeah, of course, since his big time adviser says people should die at 75 with no scientific evidence of any such non-sense.
I think those color coded risk things have gotten quite common at the state level. We have one inAZ.
We totally have them for counties in California. We were finally able to get a haircut October 1st when our county went from red to orange level.
But lately there’s been talk about backsliding, so I think we’re headed for mauve.
Risk Level: Put On a Damned Helmet
Unfortunately, turning the dial up releases chlorine gas into several sectors of the economy. Sorry about that.
This interjection of government into our everyday lives must be resisted at all costs. We will be completely at the whim of a bunch of wannabe authoritarian bureaucrats.
I, for one, welcome the open honesty of our new crypto-Stalinist overlords.
The Tootsie Roll center has been revealed, in all its glory.
In 20 seconds, how Glibertarian mods experience the first comments on a PM Links post to the comments after the links have been up for about an hour or two.
I’m more disturbed that those guys were grooving to that bilge before the supposedly offending words dropped.
LOLOLOLOLOLOL
Do you know what he is actually singing?
Something about “White Pony Rainbow.”
Here is the video with English subs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YG4iTGjuoKw
the-the-the-the?
Sooo, anyone familiar with the Amazon Games app? “Free Games with Prime” – the SNK/NeoGeo pack is looking very tempting but I’d like to know how it ties to my account or runs on windows (I do have some legacy neogeo emulators although I haven’t run those in years).
Update, I’ve gotten the computers, router, and modem relocated. Hooked up speakers and new monitors.
Linux box went with no issues.
Windows box ran into a problem – the Uninterruptable Power Supply wasn’t providing power. Yes, it is plugged in. The screen on it even indicated full battery, But I could not boot the PC when plugged into the UPS, and could when plugged directly into the wall. I may need a new UPS.
The new video card, display cables, and monitors are working, as well as my internet.
I have noticed that all my windows look small, because they were sized for the old monitors.
I have to now migrate all of my external devices, sinde I didn’t want to futz with all of them while troubleshooting issues.
Anyone know any tricks to revive UPSes?
check the fuse? check the battery to see it jostled loose while moving?
Could be, could be.
The output should be protected. Either with a fuse or a CB. CB, should be external if there is one, fuse you may have to take a cover off.
Found the circuit breaker – it had not tripped.
If you’re willing to pop the top, you might find one or more connectors might also have worked loose. Wouldn’t be the first time I’ve seen that.
I haven’t checked the battery yet, it’s a bit more work to get at.
Flip it off and back on, just for funsies. Sometimes a tripped CB doesn’t feel tripped.
It’s a pop-up button marked “press to reset”. I did poke it a few times, but it felt like the mechanism was already engaged.
Did you check the thermostat?
Lol, in the first year onsite, they were replacing the switch at the HV yard and managed to take down everything on UPS.
Normal power was unaffected.
I don’t particularly want to buy a new UPS. I’m hoping it’s a loose battery connector, since the breaker isn’t tripped.
Thanks be to [insert demon or deity of preference], we have been spared from the grinding boot heel of President Cartoon Villain’s despotic authoritarianism!
Somebody tell the Armenians how mighty Russia is, and how they need to ally with them again?
Who else can help Armenia? France or Iran?
I may need a new UPS.
Did you check the
thermostatoutput voltage, with a meter?Youth hunt https://imgur.com/a/7rtWOoE
This Saturday was youth modern gun hunt here in Arkansas.
Did the kid find any modern guns? 😉
What a great memory for him. That grin is fantastic.
Nice!
Dr. Naomi Wolf exposes herself as a retard:
https://twitter.com/naomirwolf/status/1325604856283869189?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
As do many many follow up commenters although for a different reason.
Eh, she’s not the only one who didn’t investigate the actual platforms of the presidential contenders. And I can appreciate a take that runs contrary to one’s own mob.
I appreciate that she’s taking the stand, I just find it humorous that the good doctor was pig ignorant when it comes to they policies of the fucking guy she voted for.
And not some minor detail buried in the platform somewhere. This was one of their headline campaign issues.
Oh for sure. There were damn few people voting on policies in this election.
Yeah, the replies from the Ozzies and New Zealanders are particularly brain-cancer-inducing, not to mention displaying a disturbing willingness to slobber all over the knob of the State in “gratitude.”
“please, press that boot on my neck harder! I’m ever so grateful!”
unbelievable.
Crocodile Dundee must be spinning in his grave.
Crocodile Dundee is coming back with a new film, where he is played by an aboriginal trans otherkin Brony/Furry hybrid. When confronted by a thug on his visit to NYC who pulls out a knife and demands his stuff, he talks real nice, the thug puts the knife down and they have fruity cocktails with little umbrellas in them.
That might work, as a comedy.
That must mean that every Netflix original and half the stuff coming out of hollywood is now a comedy.
I didn’t realize comedy is still so popular since actually being funny has been cancelled.
When the virus shows up again, as it inevitably will, the good little sheep will be locked back in their barn.
As do many many follow up commenters although for a different reason.
One says “we could have spared 230,000 lives if we’d done a complete lockdown in January, no travel, no leaving home, nothing for a month”.
Can you imagine people then — the ones who had warned for four years that Trump was a dictator in waiting — if he’d suggested this in January? Yet these people now want to call him a murderer for not doing it.
This is how powerful the media has become (and how dumb the general population is).
Wanna read something depressing?
I don’t know what’s more depressing, that most Biden voters don’t care that he is implicated in corruption with hostile governments, or that the DemOp Media and Tech Lord coverup may have worked well enough to save his candidacy.
Oh, TW: poll.
I’d prefer not to.
I’d have to agree also, that scandal would not have changed my vote. I would have voted for big pile of dogshit before voting for Biden.
Anyway, Zekey the creep heinous ghoul Emanuel says life is not worth living after 75, so why don’t Biteme just end it all now, for all our own good?
Harris drools in anticipation. [Is that reason enough? I feel like Satan in Constantine “you will live Joe Biden, oh, you will LIVE”]
Got a brass base pad in from CZ Custom. Only one, because I didn’t want to drop $200 on a full set without knowing if it will work. Cycling snap caps says it works. I am conflicted about it, mainly because it cost more than the mag does, and the finish is crappy for a small piece of brass at that price. Then again, is IS brass and it’s going to be dropped on the ground repeatedly, so no finish would survive the first 30 seconds.
Does fingernail polish stick to brass? What would be good to mark these with?
What do you need to Mark it for? What is the environment?
Looking at a similar product from Shooks custom, it appears there are round depressions that could be filled with nail polish or epoxy to mark them.
Dremel?
Or a steel punch or engraving
All my magazines are engraved with my initials and an index number in 12-point StringLabs Black Rose font, then inlaid with 18-karat gold fill.
Yeah, of course nail polish will stick to brass. And it will come right off with nail polish remover. Or just scratch it off and buff out the scratches if any.
In Iraq I used to mark some 9mm rounds in ugly bright nail polish across the base, but not over the primer and edge of the cup.
The top round in every magazine was a painted round. When I cleared my weapon I looked for that round in my hand. That way no matter how tired or stressed I was I knew I had properly cleared my weapon.
You know, I hadn’t thought of that, but reloaders will “headstamp” their ammo with just sharpies so they can reclaim their brass. It must not wear that badly.
You might already know this, or it might no longer be an issue, but – repeatedly re-chambering the same cartridge will eventually render that cartridge non-functional. This is especially an issue with the AR/M4 platform.
Interesting. I mixed tracer and ball in a set pattern so hopefully I could tell where I was in a magazine. That technique worked…..okay.
Since I mandated and followed firing weapons every week at a maximum before leaving the perimeter I had a decent rotation of CL V going on. So never encountered that issue.
It does makes sense that a lowest bidder manufactured, small caliber round being repeatedly chambered and extracted would cause performance issues.
I’m pretty sure the newer nail polish will stick to anything. Maybe not glass, but pretty much anything.
Mark them for what purpose?
So I can ID which magazine is having trouble, if one is.
So, not required to be highly visible at a glance or something that you can tell by touch? Or even need to be permanent?
Yes, but remarking them is annoying. The paint I’m using now on the plastic basepads has had to be reapplied twice since the ranges reopened.
Like right now, of the six that I have in active use, two always drop free, and one rarely does. I’ve relegated that one to Barney duty, and make sure those first two are the one that start in the gun and the first reload.
I have visually and tactilely inspected them , and I cannot for the life of me discern the difference between the good ones and the bad ones. They all feed perfectly though.
Just wrap different colored electrical tapes around the base pad.
Or if you want something permanent, use a metal stamp, cheap at Harbor Freight. Better to mark the tube than the base pad, as long as you don’t bend the tube inward when stamping. Use a block of steel inside to support the tube.
I have seen nail polish used, also you could consider just etching hash marks with a file. Wait for everyone to ask what the notches mean!
Metallic paint Sharpie.
That does NOT stick to plastic basepads at all. but I’ll give it a try on the brass.
Really? It sticks to my Glock basepads just fine…
Is calling Biden “Snobama” as bad as “Blockyomama”? I hope not, cuz I’m kind of proud of it.
Looks like Ezekiel Goebbels already has Snowbiden scheduled for the ovens, effectively 2 years ago, so he gets the expedited ticket.
“BBC is going to have to retract this old article
titled
“Vote rigging: How to spot the tell-tale signs”
We saw lots of places exceed 100% voter turnout
Clearly it’s possible”
https://twitter.com/Timcast/status/1325784428296220673
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-37243190
All of the Wokestream modern legacy media have morphed into the same Borg groupthink bullshit.
One of the things we have to do is to weaken them severely and cripple public school as it exists now.
If you want to win a war, know your enemy and attack them where it hurts most.
I’m out of the public school system. My kids will not be going back now if I can help it at all. They’ve declared war on independent thinkers.
“BREAKING: FOX NEWS Cuts Away From Kayleigh McEnany Briefing on Election Fraud — Neil Cavuto Says Network ‘Can’t Verify Her Claims’ So They Will Not Air”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/breaking-fox-news-cuts-away-kayleigh-mcenany-briefing-election-fraud-neil-cavuto-says-network-cant-verify-claims-will-not-air/
https://twitter.com/CassandraRules/status/1325920985745412099
Cavuto is a cuck boy. He’s probably under his desk right now afraid that Kayleigh will beat him up in public.
Cavuto has been off his rocker since his HCQ rant. YOU’RE GOING TO DIE IF YOU TAKE THIS DRUG.
You know how he got the Linda Vaccaro voice? By slurping too much Murdoch dick.
It’ll be interesting to see Fox’s ratings in a week or so. From what I’ve seen on other sites their core audience is pissed and they’re leaving and not coming back.
They used to get a lot of play in my house. No more.
I’m definitely curious to see how far their ratings plummet this week.
I’m hearing they were behind CNN and MSNBC this past weekend.
Watching a network commit suicide in real time. If they think CNNers and MSNBCers are going to flock to Fox because of their new wokeness they’re nuts.
You mean like Drudge? -45% visits in less than a year.
Drudge tweeted out a “We did it” or something to that effect pro Biden tweet from his personal account the other day. I guess he has enough money in the bank to not worry about (further) wrecking his brand.
I guess the question is “What exactly did you do?”
Cheated the people that made him rich.
Drudge sold it to some commie hacks after he lost his fucking mind over Trump stomping his fav establishment fuck, Mittens.
I think it was a Mark Dice vid where I heard that and he was also saying the contrary to rumor Drudge hasn’t sold out. Who knows what the truth is but the we did it stuff was his personal account.
He hasn’t sold the site I mean, he’s definitely sold out.
Dice is a hero, no one else can get away with what he does on Twatter. I think he’s fucking Jack’s mum and is threatening to tell.
If Trump’s lawsuits are successfull, there’s gonna be a lot of very unhappy Dems. The media has set them up for a huge fall.
*snort*
Fox News: Arbiters of Truth.
I mean honestly, how much unsubstantiated drivel/outright lies have they not only aired but regurgitated from the likes of Rove, Cheney, Rice, Holder, Sessions, ect, ect, ect over the last twenty years?
What a freaking joke.
I don’t give a flying fuck if the network can verify her claims or not. The press secretary for the sitting President is valid news.
Remember all those sound bytes from Schiff & Pelosi with their Russian collusion?
I sure do.
All delivered with a knowing sideways glance and a smug smile. How could I forget?
Wait, I was thinking of Rachel Maddox for some reason. Damn, either it’s been a long day or I’ve got Bidenitis.
She’s talented and beautiful. They hate that. Because they’re ugly, stupid, and don’t have the talent of a retarded squirrel.
Holy fuck Fox is suicidal. Just can’t even….
This dispute is disputed. Really? Trump is fucking disputing it, you idiots. Of course it’s fucking disputed.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/breaking-trump-campaign-files-lawsuit-pennsylvania-alleging-creation-implementation-illegal-two-tiered-voting-system-election/
I don’t see the courts striking diem what the media has declared
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EmZZanbXcAQi_jf.jpg
Is this real?
We have that going on around here. We’re allowed indoor dining though. It’s upping their capacity because of distancing rules.
Yes, those are all over Los Angeles. They also build makeshift barriers in the middle of the fucking street with tables in front of eateries. I got steaks from a high end steakhouse and they had the same setup, with heaters and everything. Very third world. Ramshackle structures out front of beautiful buildings we’re not allowed to eat in.
I don’t blame the restaurants one fucking bit. The government tries to choke you out, you defend yourself any way you can.
This whole thing has been one massive very unfunny joke and I’m greatly disheartened as to how little push back there has been. It appears that indeed “good times create weak men.”
I totally agree. I’m pissed at the government. Many iconic places are just gone, forever. I know the vitus is real, but the handling has to have been a political axe wielded against Trump. There’s no way this would’ve been the response under saint O. No fucking way.
I’m not so sure. After all, look at the way Europe reacted.
Dude, what were they gonna do? After we did what we did? Imagine how the drug war would have been prosecuted if we had never outlawed all the happy powders? Same principle.
They locked down first.
If I remember correctly, in NH if restaurants set up tents outdoors there were rules about having sides open so that the tent wasn’t as enclosed.
The restaurants also, if required by the municipality, get inspections and permits for outdoor tents.
just having a tent fire-proofed can be pretty expensive
I’m watching a guy on YouTube break down some recent Keith Olbermann clips. Olbermann’s sincerely out of his damn mind.
That’s why they love him and that asexual fugly dyke Maddow. Because misery loves company.
YT has recently been very insistent that I watch leftwing hacks jack off to the glories of election fraud…I took Q’s advice and disabled all Google/Yt related apps and extensions on all my devices in response.
Fuck ’em. I hate being preached to.
+1 DDG
I need to do that myself.
The separation anxiety will pass, just like giving up FB. I did the latter a few years ago and despite my recent mental troubles I’m a happier man for it.
Had I stuck around there I may not be alive today. Google/YT has become a deterrent to sound mental health for me, so, bye.
It doesn’t hammer my psyche or anything, I just don’t like giving Google money although I do admittedly get angry when they try to shove certain vids and their associated viewpoints down my throat. If it wasn’t for the damn ASMR which helps me sleep, I have pretty bad insomnia, I’d have quit YouTube a long time ago.
There’s going to have to be a new alternative media.
So what do you do?
Who has that sort of money? Certainly not Trump. Musk, can we really red pill that boy?
Get used to samizdat
I’m going to pass on that.
The Cum Town podcast discusses Steven Segal movies:
https://youtu.be/BzIHyF7UWY4
Funny shit…