HereAndGone2
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HereAndGone2
2hr ago
I don't know how true this 6/6/6 thing is (I never heard of it until that stupid balloon popping ad for Kamala Harris) but even if so, it's the ideal, the same way that men want the blonde blue-eyed slim waist and big tits and shy coy virgin who's a nymphomaniac in the bedroom but for them only, yeah?
Then you find the ordinary person, man or woman, whom you settle down with. Nobody gets to marry movie stars and models routinely, only a few people. Ordinary people get with ordinary people. And mostly they're happy.
HereAndGone2
2hr ago
Female sexuality is fundamentally stupid and evil in a way that male sexuality simply isn't.
Them's fightin' words, and we could get into a real fight over this. Men have done stupid and evil things for sex, and so have women. Male sexuality will happily fuck six year olds, is that fundamentally smart and good?
HereAndGone2
2hr ago
Slim/attractive (they're mostly the same thing): partially driven by genetics? But still, exercise and diet go a long way here.
You can diet and exercise to be slim and as toned as necessary, but if you're horse-faced or just don't have that 'current standards of what constitutes attractive' features, it won't help. "Plain Jane" is a term, for a reason. It doesn't necessarily mean "short, fat, otherwise objectionable", mostly "not hot".
Men and women do judge things differently; yeah you'll be 20-something for ten years, but then you turn 30 from 29 and now suddenly you're a hag? Leo DiCaprio is probably the extreme here, but note his rotating list of girlfriends who get swapped out for a younger model when they age out of what he clearly deems an acceptable age range, while he continues to get older (seems he's been with the current squeeze a whole three years! Just another three years to go before she hits 30 and we'll see if the relationship continues or not).
HereAndGone2
2hr ago
Well dash my wig, sometimes things fall out so wonderfully it's almost like the universe was steering them that way. Was he just doing "I'm a journalist, I'm reporting on this" or was he doing "Let me help document the Legal Observers peacefully protesting against the fascist bigots, since I too am part of La Résistance and wish to disseminate our goals to the wider public in order to encourage them to also peacefully protest"?
HereAndGone2
1d ago
Thank you, I will cherish this kind word the next time I manage to get myself smacked down by the mods (no, Amadan, I'm not saying I'm deliberately going to do this, don't get twitchy just yet!) 😁
HereAndGone2
1d ago
I sort of believe that after all the mockery and criticism of his first term, Trump is now "to hell with it, I'm done trying to play nice, I'll do what the hell I want in my second term, what are they gonna do, vote for Kamala and Tampon Tim?"
It's genuinely bananas. I couldn't believe Venezuela, especially as most of the complaining about it seems to be the usual white liberals and actual Venezuelans are going online to go "Thank you President Trump for getting my father out of jail!" Maria Machado handing over her Nobel peace prize is just the twist nobody saw coming (is that jumping the shark yet? writers for the new season, take note!) though I am forced to admit the seething around that is immensely entertaining.
Are we not entertained, indeed!
HereAndGone2
1d ago
Will Don Lemon have 34 FELONIES!!!! on his record? 🤣
HereAndGone2
1d ago
That's the huge problem which leaves both sides open to charges of hypocrisy: some sectors of the American economy are reliant on cheap, disposable labour. They can't/won't get the natives to do that anymore, so they need a constant flow of immigrants willing to take on hard, dirty, uncertain work. This is going back decades, my teen years were blighted by every local talent show where someone with a guitar did Deportees (a song from 1948 by Woody Guthrie).
The hypocrisy of the right about economic exploitation is easy to see, the hypocrisy of the left less so: but they are de facto defending the permanence of a serf class for manual labour in order to keep their nice lifestyle of abundance going.
So why the focus of the cities which voted Harris?
Like they say about robbing banks, because that's where the money is. Blue-voting cities are the ones with the most visible levels of "we're a sanctuary city! we have all these activist organisations for undocumented persons!" If I'm going to be looking for easy finding of illegal immigrants, where do you think I'll head to first? Tom Johnson's produce farm out in the boondocks (where indeed there's likely to be undocumented workers, same in meat processing plants, but it's also probably going to be tougher to identify/arrest them), or the George Floyd Memorial Centre and Legal Aid Provision for Persons of Irregularity?
When ICE shot Good, Noem wasted no time to transparently slander her as a domestic terrorist.
Gosh, how very reassuring it is to know that the people who created the category of "domestic terrorist" never, ever, used it to slander people! It's all a lie, yeah maybe sure something in the letter could be interpreted that way but really now, are you going to believe us or them?
U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland said that he couldn't even "imagine a circumstance" where "parents complaining" at a school board meeting would be "labeled as domestic terrorism." Yet, several Republicans have continued to falsely claim Garland called such parents "terrorists."
The nugget of truth behind the political spin is that a letter from the National School Boards Association to Garland last fall argued some violent threats against school officials "could be the equivalent to a form of domestic terrorism" that would warrant the intervention of federal law enforcement. In his response, Garland directed his agency to review strategies to address violent threats and harassment against school boards, but he didn't use the NSBA's "terrorism" language, for which the group later apologized.
Was Good a domestic terrorist? Ask the people who created the term. I don't think it was useful then or now, but it's been put into use and you really can't complain if the tools you created to bash your enemies then get used in turn to bash you when your enemies get their hands on them. I think she was a damn fool who fucked around and found out, she didn't deserve to be killed, but neither did the ICE agent deserve to be put in that position by someone thinking she could larp as the Maquis and nothing would happen because she was one of the Good Guys fighting the fascist nazi tyrant's stormtroopers, and every movie assured her that bad things don't happen to the Good Guys fighting the nazi fascist stormtroopers.
HereAndGone2
1d ago
HereAndGone2
1d ago
I have to admit, I did not have "USA versus EU over Greenland" on my bingo card (if I had bingo cards in the first place). Reality sure is a very interesting place these days!
HereAndGone2
1d ago
To be fair, Garland got savaged for not being quick enough, or plentiful enough, with the prosecutions. So for the progs, you can very easily, very quickly, slip from Hero of the People to Counter-Revolutionary Wrecker Running Dog. As, I suppose, we've seen before with Communist states.
(Okay, that linked article wasn't very savage in the savaging, but I did see online calls for heads on spikes, as it were).
HereAndGone2
1d ago
Jennifer Welch is a divorced divorce attorney
That seems to be her co-host, Angie Sullivan. Welch is (was?) an interior designer. Both are divorced, though.
"By 2025, Welch scaled down her job as an interior designer and Sullivan had left her job as a divorce attorney in order to focus on the podcast."
HereAndGone2
1d ago
Talk to Bernadette Devlin about that 😁 Or for paramilitary activity, the Price sisters.
this appears to be like a kind of resistance-within-the-resistance of severely disaffected former Obama style liberals / progressives who have decided to go full Provisional IRA.
Please. This means they're not the Provos*, they're the Continuity IRA, as distinct from the Real IRA, another split-off grouping who were/are more effective or at least have survived longer (allegedly they got the nickname the Cokes because, like Coca-Cola, they were The Real Thing). I think the blow your whistle types are more prone to the splitting and lack of effectiveness of the Continuity than the Real.
*Genealogy equivalents: If the traditional Democratic party is the Official IRA/Sinn Féin, the Obama liberals were the Provisional IRA/Sinn Féin, the progressives/DSA affiliates were the INLA/IRSP and offshoots, the SJW wing of that were the Real IRA and the ICE ICE baby lot are the Continuity. Fissioning like an amoeba on Ritalin seems to be a hallmark of Marxist-Leninist groups.
Star Wars was never my fandom, so I haven't watched any of the movies since "The Phantom Menace" (and that was primarily for Liam Neeson), and none of the TV spinoffs.
But I've seen reasonably good things about "Andor". Can they possibly manage to pull the rabbit out of the hat with "don't fuff this up, and try writing something decent" or is all hope lost, like the Lesbian Space Witches Am-Dram Choir And Interpretive Dance Troupe?
So it's really happening at long, long last?
I imagine because they've tanked Star Wars as a property so comprehensively, there isn't even enough of the bones left to squeeze anything more out of, so Kennedy can be cut loose. Nobody is going to bat for her and she can't promise one more big, sure thing to grab viewing figures.
Star Trek is going the same way, with the latest disaster. This Guardian review is something else; "Grange Hill but with phasers" is not immediately enticing. I'm burned out on Trek. You can't keep insulting legacy fans for being legacy fans and not supporting New Thing when you aren't grabbing replacement new fans in sufficient numbers. Same with Doctor Who as well, seems like. The First Big Black Gay Woke Doctor was, somehow or other, bafflingly, not a huge ratings success. What unfathomable reason could possibly explain all this?
The lows are that you’ve got a very, very small percentage of the fan base that has enormous expectations and basically they want to continue to see pretty much the same thing.
Miniscule. Tiny. Too negligible to even bother counting. If they all disappeared, we wouldn't even notice, that's how unimportant they are. Wait, why are our ratings tanking and nobody is purchasing our merch?
TIL that not going out to do stupid shit that gets you killed is "cowering in your home". Drunk drivers everywhere raise a glass in salute!
I'm probably burned out because of one too many goddamn stupid online posts from keyboard warriors doing their best to encourage people like Good to go out and get themselves into real trouble. Allegedly, a list of ICE and border agents identities was made public, and one such "let's you and him fight" was posting very thinly veiled hints about "go out and find these nazis and make their lives hell". (This is why ICE agents are now all masked up, and probably why they are regarding members of the public with paranoia - that idiot blowing the whistle in your ear may only mean to deafen you, or they could be planning to show up at your home and do who knows what?)
And people like Good, who seem to believe that a fake title ('I'm a Legal Observer! Can't touch me!') is going to protect them from any consequences, so they can stroll right up to the line of "I can hit you but you can't do a thing to me", including "try and use your car as a getaway vehicle, get treated like a criminal fleeing the scene" , and that the usual result of that won't somehow, miraculously, happen to them - they read and listen to all this encouragement, and go and do stupid shit, and get hurt or killed.
Yeah. "Cowering in her home" would have kept this woman alive and her child not an orphan, but gee, let's all pretend that Trump is the exact same as Kim Jong Un and that we are bold brave French Maquis resistance fighters. Then we'll go home after the protest that defeated the jackbooted stormtroopers and post about it online and everything will be beer and skittles.
HereAndGone2
7d ago
There's plenty of online commentary elsewhere that ICE are not cops and have no legal right to arrest you. So maybe OP thinks they're not cops and so have no legal standing, so while you're obliged to obey police orders, ICE can't tell you to stop, go, get out, or go away. In which case, ICE agents trying to open her car door or stop her are no more authorities than any guy trying to break into your car, and you're justified in whatever you do to get away to protect yourself, including driving at him.
HereAndGone2
7d ago
Sometimes kids prefer living with the parent that's more checked out and permissive instead of the responsible one.
Seems like Mom in this case was the more checked out and permissive parent, it could well be Dad is the responsible one who makes sure they get to school, have their lunches packed, clean clothes, etc. while Mom is "but there's something more important in my socialist queer activist anti-fa group this week, you're old enough to look after yourself now".
Not saying this is so, but generally if the courts give primary custody to the father, it's indicative that there's something going on with the mother so she's incapable/not interested/flying high with the cuckoos in the clouds.
HereAndGone2
7d ago
She blocked half a road for likely five minutes in her local neighborhood because ICE was hanging out around schools to nab immigrant parents as their kids get out.
So we're really doing "will nobody think of the children?" now? Okay, "dead mom of six year old orphan" would not be a dead mom if she stayed home like a normal person and didn't decide to play La Résistance.
HereAndGone2
7d ago
If not it’s good propaganda
It definitely sounds somewhere between "it's not that we're incompetent, they were just too advanced" defensiveness and "this'll make a great story to sell to the media" opportunism, but yeah: why would the US government try to correct stories about "their troops were super-humanly accurate and their equipment was space-age advanced"? 😁 You really expect the DoD to come out with a correction "No, that's not the case at all! Our guys are just regular, some of 'em barely competent, and our kit is standard average like every other country's military!"
The rationale was that men get called "Mr." and that indicates nothing about their marital status, whereas women were discriminated against by means of "Are you Miss or Mrs?" So the idea was a general term equivalent to "Mr." for women.
I wasn't too keen on it, but over time I've come around because it is handy, in a work context, where you don't know if Mary Murphy is Mrs. Murphy or Miss Murphy when you're writing an official letter, so a neutral term avoids giving offence. (I tend to get official letters addressed to Mrs. My Surname, seemingly on the basis that a woman my age is surely married, but I've given up trying to get it corrected since I don't want to sound like a Dick Emery sketch).
Ironically, if you like, in previous centuries women were referred to as "Mrs." even if not married, since it was abbreviation of "Mistress" a term of respect/status for older women/women in charge of households/important or high-status women.
HereAndGone2
8d ago
Didn't it start off with heterosexual couples, though? People who were co-habiting but not married, especially if they had kids together, getting irritated about being treated as 'lesser' since they weren't married and "boyfriend/girlfriend are terms you use when you're kids, not when you're grown adults living together" and so on? Something the way Ms was adopted - if you use "partner" then that says nothing about your marital status and so you aren't being treated as in a less serious, committed relationship for lack of 'the piece of paper'.
Then using it for gay couples was more natural since they couldn't legally marry at the time, and it was a way of treating them in line with straight couples.
People have moved to using it all the time now, which was one point of contention in the "this is queer erasure" complaint post I saw elsewhere: she's her wife, not just her partner!
They were hobbled by the pretence that the army was only there as a neutral peace-keeping force, that the North was nothing to do with them at all, and this was just the innocent Brits being nice, kind, good neighbours by helping out the Paddies with their little problem.
Under the hood, there were plenty of dirty tricks campaigns.
This is the main thing that continues to annoy me: the English will not take responsibility for their history. Dawkins shooting off his ignorant mouth about religion being the problem in Northern Ireland, that it was (Irish) Catholics versus (Irish) Protestants, was just one example of the view there: the nice kind Brits had nothing to do with centuries of political manipulation and setting one side against the other and colonisation, it was just stupid Paddies with their ignorant tribalism.
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