SteveKirk
2yr ago
2rafa: own up to how stupid conservatives are.
Me: sure, I'm not supporting them.
You: how dare you!
This was possibly the dumbest ban of the week, although the competition was steep.
SteveKirk
2yr ago
So I've been logging my vehicle trips to plan for a new car. Turns out 90% of them are 2-4 mile hops on 20-35mph roads, and it also turns out there's a federal category of "low speed vehicle" or "neighborhood electric vehicle" that would cover most of my mileage, allowing me to buy an old pickup for the rest of it.
How silly is this? I'm really tempted to build one myself, because I could do it from an old golf cart frame and wire the battery/charger unit to provide backup power to my house...
My school club in grade school actually built our own electric carts for parades, so I've even got relevant experience lol.
SteveKirk
2yr ago
Also the justification for aerial bombing, total war, etc. long history.
SteveKirk
2yr ago
Makes sense. They went after literally everyone at the Charlottesville protest based on that theory, but there was zero attempt to go after even the ringleaders when actual, organized BLM groups killed kids.
We're long past the point of legal principles mattering, but yours is one I could definitely live with.
I am absolutely saving that Tong ruling to respond to crocodile tears about the "free speech" of Hamas supporters.
the majority of those comments accused Tong of posting with the intention of marginalizing and/or insulting the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement (which has sought to raise awareness of George Floyd's killing).
Dean Eldredge imposed the following sanctions on Tong: 1) disciplinary probation; 2) access restriction; 3) mandatory meetings to complete an "implicit bias" program
This country turned into a hysterical parody of East Germany in 2020.
We used to make the Czechoslovakia comparison, but at least "why won't you put up the Workers of The World Unite sign, comrade?" was only an implicit threat.
SteveKirk
2yr ago
My favorite teacher always told us tattoos were stupid because identifying marks show up on arrest warrants and interpol dossiers, so real professionals would never be caught dead with one.
Best thing you could say to influence 11 year old boys.
SteveKirk
2yr ago
About to set up a new phone. Does anyone have strong opinions on Graphene vs calyx?
I'm leaning towards calyx just because I'm familiar with MicroG for Vanced, it has a reputation for being user friendly, and the kind of people who support graphene all appear to have overwritten their reddit posts in protest of something or other.
Also accepting votes for "ur a retard, just use stock android"
SteveKirk
2yr ago
Side note for that last one, it was "protester shoots at car they were mobbing, hits other protester mobbing the car"
Clever bit of headline writing to make it sound like the driver did the shooting.
SteveKirk
2yr ago
Have any of the non-AR successor platforms taken off? Last news I heard was Germany (partially?) ditching their replacement to go AR. Did the IAR project for the Marines ever happen, or did it get shelved to buy them more anti-ship missiles?
http://www.wsj.com/articles/look-whos-getting-that-bank-settlement-cash-1472421204
Most of the deals give double credit or more against the settlement amount for every dollar in “donations.” Bank of America’s donation list—the only bank to disclose exactly where it sends its money—shows how this benefits liberal groups. The bank has so far given at least $1.15 million to the National Urban League, which counts as if it were $2.6 million against the bank’s settlement. Similarly, $1.5 million to La Raza takes $3.5 million off the total amount of “consumer relief” owed by the bank. There are scores of other examples
https://rtp.fedsoc.org/paper/improper-third-party-payments-in-u-s-government-litigation-settlements/
https://www.judicialwatch.org/doj-give-leftist-groups-cut-b-settlement/
Obama is a Chicago politician, and US politics is now running on the Chicago model, shaking down entire sectors of the economy to fund their machine politics. Trump ended the policy rather than using it to fund the right, and now Biden has restarted it to keep leftists swimming in cash. As if they didn't get enough of it from the billions handed to them in the "inflation reduction act"
It doesn't matter what you get them for as long as you confiscate their money and give it to regime-supporting organizations through settlement agreements, like Obama did. The famous "120 mil to the govt or 40 mil to La Raza" option.
You seem to buy the leftist propaganda that "owning the libs" is about bullying rather than destroying the enemy's ability to wage war.
Fine them 60 billion for not having enough signage on their disabled parking spaces, whatever you can pin on them. Tesla had to pay a hundred mil because a black guy said "nigga" without being fired, bet we can find plenty of hostile workplace materiel in "literally slaughter colonizers and their children btw my coworkers are specifically the colonizers I'm talking about" if we really try.
Of course the real golden ticket is finding that the tides foundation is conspiring to fund criminal activity and launder money from that activity.
Which starts by getting sentences on street level antifa groups and working up until you can get all their lawyers disbarred.
Even setting this as a goal counts as a win when Conservatism spent years trying to "win debates" in a bow tie.
I was never a covid warrior, but all the scuffed and faded "stand 6ft away at all times," "social distancing is mandatory" signs everywhere always bothered me.
The other day I noticed that in under a week all the local ones have vanished. All of a sudden, after four God damn years.
Is this just coincidence? Local businessmen talking about it at a meetup? Has it happened anywhere else?
The British government also just came out and said it was time to remove it all. Why now?
People really need to study the rise of the crits in academia. On the CRT wiki page it's of course described as a "right wing maga conspiracy theory", but if you go to Derrick Bell's bio it explains how his fringe group used threats and backstabbing to take over departments and get their allies hired, their enemies fired, and infinite money for their programs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derrick_Bell
Liberalism can't beat leninist vanguard party organizing. And Conservatism can't beat it without nuking the whole battlefield, because they can't even engage it.
SteveKirk
2yr ago
The thought of Paxton prosecuting the Tides Foundation the same way this administration prosecuted the NRA is wonderful, but will he be able to get the staff and bureaucratic whips together to do it?
SteveKirk
2yr ago
You can change it anytime you want btw, unless you're worried about people not recognizing you.
Spend a few weeks as "The X formerly known as Pasha"
SteveKirk
2yr ago
Yeah, weird, my hostility to tattoos is dropping by the minute. Underemployed manchildren too, you say?
Everyone I know who's bought cheap desert property to develop as an off grid compound has ended up abandoning it. If you can find Ian from Forgotten Weapons' old channel you can see how much money and effort he put into building his Arizona desert bunker-house before selling it at (presumably) a heavy loss. The wife might have had some say in that, I'm not sure about the full story.
I was talking to a farmer the other week, saying how jealous I was of people with much better land off in the sticks. She said "yeah, the land's better elsewhere, but we need to live near rich customers who'll pay ridiculous prices for Organic Small Farm produce to be profitable at our scale."
(She's actually profiting by buying things like garlic and potatoes from farmers with better land and no markets, and reselling them at local prices)
In a desert you have neither good land nor good customers.
No, leftists are consistent in that they actually write papers about how free speech is a white supremacist social construct that must be abolished etc. etc., see Derrick Bell and Richard Delgado. You have to give them credit for that at least.
https://cyber.harvard.edu/bridge/CriticalTheory/rights.htm
Current freedom of speech doctrine accords protection to commercial speech and pornography, limits governmental regulation of private contributions to political campaigns, and forbids sanctions for hate speech. Such rules operate in the often-stirring language of individual freedom, but their effect is more likely to be regressive than progressive
"We need to play dirty to win More Progress" is their stated principle.
SteveKirk
2yr ago
Imo, and sorry to say this, but I've always thought "affirmative action doesn't matter that much" was just a cope along the same slippery slope as "it's just some kids in college.".
"It's just the VP of DEI, not a big deal"
"It's just the entire marketing and project management staff, who cares"
"Wait a minute all the internal promotions I was looking at are marked White Men Need Not Apply, what happened?"
I suspect the fragility of modern technology will accelerate this timeline dramatically. We're already getting "we can't keep the traffic lights working because fentanyl zombies steal all the copper wire."
This society wasn't built to handle a completely dysfunctional population.
Is there any data on what kind of Venezuelans we're getting? Just one of the Dem's official programs appears to have flown in 400,000 of them already this year, not counting any who walk over the open border.
Is there any vetting being done at all? How many of them are just being emptied out of prisons in Venezuela to get rid of them?
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