WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
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I donno man. I was a premium subscriber since they started Breaking Points, they were my goto for live coverage or reactions to the debates or election nights. But I made it about a month into this administration before I just couldn't handle it anymore, unsubscribed after years, and told them explicitly why. I don't hate watch, or check clips, or anything anymore. It's best to make a clean break from people you were fans of. No need to add insult to injury watching their trajectory.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
9hr ago
I'll toss out, I don't follow him a lot, or at all really. But Cenk Uygur is virtually the only lefty I've seen not 1000% on board the "Trump is evil and we must murder all his followers" train. I watched him argue for an hour with Krystal Ball, before I couldn't stand her anymore, that there was tons of populist common ground between MAGA and the populist left where progress could be made. That MAGA is not a cult, and they push back when Trump doesn't follow through with his populist agenda. That Don Jr and JD Vance are open to a lot of populist left proposals.
Krystal of course dismissed all this as hopeless because they're all brainwashed fascist and there is no hope in stopping or reforming any of them inside the democratic system.
Even now Cenk is saying that we need peace and reconciliation after this shooting, and because he's on the left, he'll apologize first. And I believe him.
Krystal's latest round of fake tears and pretending that blanket dismissing everyone who disagrees with her as capital F-Fascist who are irredeemable had nothing to do with this I find less convincing.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
10hr ago
Is that true? Basically every single left wing politician and pundit has spoken out against the attack, and we don't even know the motive! I think Hanania put it best
Once upon a time I was playing a game of Werewolf. First turn, the moderator sets the scene with a villager torn limb from limb, entrails strung from the post, head left in a bucket by the well, etc, etc. I'd never played before, so being cute, I joke "Are we sure it wasn't suicide?"
The entire village pointed at me, yelled "Werewolf!" and I was dead in 30 seconds.
Now I haven't weighed in on who I thought killed Charlie Kirk, because deep in my heart I'm terrified it will turn out to be some right wing nut. Maybe they didn't like Kirk's positions on Israel. I don't even know what Kirk's positions on Israel are, I'm just saying, anything is possible.
But I also lived through BLM burning down cities and making us all live in fear when they jumped to conclusions over "Hands up don't shoot" lies, and George Floyd lies, and the show trial of the poor cop just doing what he was trained to do while a congenital felon ODed under his care. I watched the ecosystem of misinformation about Kyle Rittenhouse which somehow left most Democrats believing his mom dropped him off at a BLM rally across state lines and gunned down a bunch of black people.
I watched the left jump to conclusions, cause trillions in damage, irrevocably destroy cities, and murder random people in a carnival of violence for years. Now I'm not saying the right has a blank check. But if I were to put a dollar figure on it I'd start with the insurance claims from all the BLM riots. And these fake tears because now it seems the left has finally pushed things to the point where backlash is inevitable, and the frog finally noticed it's being boiled, I just don't care. I can't care. I remember.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
10hr ago
Taken in isolation, perhaps it is in bounds. But the vast aggregate of other incidents drag it out of bounds IMHO.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
11hr ago
I'm shocked anyone is shocked. These people have not been quiet or subtle about wanting you dead for like, 10 years now.
Back when I used to live in Northern VA, and it was just assumed by everyone living there that an evil Trump supporter could not possibly be among them, you heard it all the time. The guy working at Trader Joe's who did their wine tastings and was friends with my wife making offhand comments about how great it would be if someone killed Trump. Chatter at the farmer's market around the local Democrat chapter's booth. The weird boomer-folk concert at Wolf Trap I got dragged to by my father in law that opened with an affirmation that it would be great if someone murdered Trump, and his supporters really don't deserve any sympathy either. The NYT publishing their assassination fan fiction, Kathy Griffin holding Trump's severed head, etc, etc. My mother in law got suspended from Twitter for Tweeting that someone should assassinate Trump. That guy who opened for Weird Al that went on the rant about how great it is that the unvaxed are all going to die.
It was only when Trump was finally shot at that the public, mainstream, casual calls for his death started getting tamped down slightly. Tenacious D comes to mind. Of course that didn't stop Destiny from saying it's a good thing an innocent bystander was killed, because that still means one less Trump supporter. Didn't seem to impact his career one iota, though it seems his unhinged behavior has finally dimmed his star somewhat in recent months.
There are stories like this all over that people are sharing, of living covert lives in deep blue areas, and the naked bloodlust on display constantly. If you think wanting Trump, his supporters, and his staff dead isn't a mainstream Democrat position, you have either constructed a labyrinth of cognitive dissonance about why it "doesn't count" because it's simply so common it's normal to you, or you are lying. And I don't care how many liars come out now with their mealy mouthed "We do not condone violence" rehearsed speeches. I refuse to forget the last 10 years.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
14hr ago
I believe this as much as someone caught with porn tabs open saying it was for research.
You think you hate TMZ enough, but you don't.
I'm allowed to say you should hate those people right? That's specific enough? With enough evidence? You can hate the people at TMZ you can hear loudly clapping and cheering the death of a husband, father and Christian? It's not more heat than light to make sure people know that's what TMZ is? That every time you see an article at TMZ, it's important to remember they would cheer your death.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
1d ago
And all of that might not piss me off, if it weren't for lefty media running constant cover, tacitly agreeing that the violence was justifiable and refusing to actually lower the temperature for these events.
Because people are going to ask for examples, they aren't hard to find.
https://x.com/Banned_Bill/status/1965860260368822399
MSNBC
“[He is] constantly sort of pushing this sort of hate speech, aimed at certain groups. And I always go back to, hateful thoughts lead to hateful words, which often then to hateful actions.”
If you've seen the guy they arrested, he looks like he has terminal MSNBC brain. Old white boomer who's brain has probably been soaked in MSM propaganda about Kirk for years.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
1d ago
How this murder occurred on a bus full of black people and not one single person who saw it happen helped her. Although in the grand scheme of things it took about 90 seconds for a black man to run back and attempt to apply pressure to the wounds about as well as you could hope an amateur would. So at least someone tried to do something.
Yes, I observed as much and was conciliatory in that regard. There was no saving this woman, and realistically shaving 30 or even 60 seconds off the response time that it took a good Samaritan to make an attempt to save her wouldn't have mattered. 90 seconds to someone who actually possesses a soul to rush to the scene might be the best you could expect in this day and age. Maybe even more than. My condemnation is of the 4 or more people who watched the attack, watched the woman collapse and bleed out, and just minded their own business, got up and walked away, whipped out their cellphone to upload to World Star Hiphop or whatever that shit gets uploaded to these days.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
1d ago
Consequences, please, while there are some reasonable options left.
Wait until a "jury of his peers" finds the murderer not guilty and he's back on the streets again.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
1d ago
I mean, the problem is, because of the reporting blackout and the "Republicans Pounce" narrative, it's all twitter threads. It's that sufficient?
There are so many threads to this murder to tug. Like how somehow the judges that let all these criminals go are all black women without law degrees? Because apparently you don't need one to serve as a judge in North Carolina? And the one that specifically let this guy free without bail runs a halfway house she pockets taxpayer money with by sending the criminals she releases under her authority as a judge there? How the council of black women that run the city have a history of embezzling COVID funds, and threw a birthday party in the middle of discussing the murder. How this murder occurred on a bus full of black people and not one single person who saw it happen helped her. Although in the grand scheme of things it took about 90 seconds for a black man to run back and attempt to apply pressure to the wounds about as well as you could hope an amateur would. So at least someone tried to do something.
Long long ago, in a more naive time, on a different site, on a different account, I compared Obama's border policies to a hypothetical scenario where all the jails just decided "Fuck you, you aren't allowed to criticize us, we're going to dump all the criminals back on you." It seemed so unthinkable at the time. Such absurd hyperbole. Alas.
Charitably everything about this case is a scathing indictment of Democrat rule. More accurately, it proves 4chan and Scott Adams were right.
Edit: Sources as best I can.
Tiawana Brown, Charlotte Councilwoman, used COVID funds for birthday party
Charlotte City Council being almost entirely black and majority female
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
2d ago
I mean, the answer to the question changes as society changes. Because the real question, IMHO, is "What does it take for me to be left alone?" And if they keep winning elections, and keep not being left alone, their feelings towards "liberal republic", whatever the fuck that is supposed to mean in the tyranny they increasingly live under, will sour. If the "liberal republic" fails to protect their kids from harmful ideologies they are against, or even pushes them onto their children, Red Caesar starts looking better. If the "liberal republic" unilaterally imports 100% of the extant population of their town in low trust third worlders and then gives them you tax dollars, without anyone ever voting for it, in fact voting against it as often as they can, Red Caesar? I could go on.
Sure, a lot of people might stubbornly stick to worshiping the "liberal republic" they were brought up in, even as it tyrannizes them and has long since stopped being liberal or a republic. Others will cry out for succor, and they won't be picky about the direction it comes from.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
3d ago
Some of @WhiningCoil's stories are truly terrifying.
No higher praise do I seek.
Then how did Muslims conquere the UK?
Ok, maybe I advanced past the sell there. But hang with me.
This whole post is basically defeatism. Declaring as psychologically, culturally and metaphysically impossible any sort of return to tradition. "Liberalism" has destroyed the old ways so thoroughly and completely, and habituated everyone against them so innately, that even attempting to go back is just LARPing.
Then how do you explain Islam in Europe? How were they not just swallowed up by the overculture of liberalism they migrated into? How did they not end up as islands of backwards LARPers constantly getting worn away by the relentless tide of liberalism against their shores?
Go back further, how did Islam reclaim the entire region? How did it turn Lebenon, "Paris of the Middle East", a model of a secular liberal society in the heart of the Middle East, back into an Islamic stronghold, with it's own Islamic paramilitary?
There are examples near and far that this model of "Liberal Supremacy", where no other sincere modes of thought are even possible in the face of the overwhelming dominance of liberalism are clearly shown to be false everywhere you look around the globe. I begin to suspect this whole line of thought is just another demoralization psyop.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
5d ago
I keep a windows VM for things like that. Defeats the purpose of Linux only slightly.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
5d ago
As I recall Steam officially does not let anyone inherit your account. But if you actually own your games because you bought them on GOG, that's what offline drm free installers are for.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
6d ago
I would think you could just self-sign the printer driver and tell Linux to trust that signature but it might be too annoying.
If it were my computer, and I cared enough, it was a thing I could research. I saw it was presented as a more secure solution that just turning off secure boot. But turning off secure boot was the thing I knew how to do immediately, and thus was much easier and faster. Maybe one day.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
6d ago
So I finally talked my wife into letting me put Linux Mint on her 10 year old laptop. She's been complaining about it for years. First I swapped out the HDD for an SSD because Windows 10 at some point stopped pretending people might still be running their OS off an HDD and it just ground to a halt. Then I upgraded it from 8 GB of ram to 16 GB of ram because Chrome is a gluttonous whore. Still, the complaints persisted, and I could see why. Random Windows processes were constantly eating up nearly 100% of her CPU. I'd play whack-a-mole with them, but every few months updates would further enshittify her experience. Right before I went to install Linux, I saw some Windows Telemetry service was monopolizing 100% of her CPU. So I kept telling her she didn't have a laptop problem, she had a Windows problem.
Had a few hiccups. It didn't want to boot off the USB on the first try, but the second was fine. Then the wifi didn't work, because it used a proprietary driver. Luckily I wired my office with ethernet, so I plugged in at my desk and downloaded that using Mint's driver manager. Unfortunately it wasn't signed, so I had to turn off secure boot for it to load. After that the printer didn't work. Mint thought it found a driverless printer on the network, but that was a lie. Installing the drivers using a script off Brother's support page worked wonders. Then it broke when I installed the VPN because it broke network discovery. Not a problem, just a config setting away. Last I loaded Brave onto it, and imported all her passwords and bookmarks.
Near as I can tell, after she opens a browser she can't tell the difference. I haven't heard any more complaints about her laptop being slow so far. Finger's crossed I won't be shelling out a grand for a new laptop any time soon.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
6d ago
If I were to speculate, I'd say that any mass coordination across disparate elements of society, without any authority dictating it, has all the hallmarks of the invisible hand.
I mean, or a visible hand, if you just look.
Third Way circulates ‘blacklist’ of terms Democrats shouldn’t use
Third Way, a prominent center-left think tank, is aiming to shape the way Democrats speak to voters as they try to counter President Trump’s agenda, including avoiding words such as “birthing person,” “cisgender,” “the unhoused” and “Latinx.”
“In reality, most Democrats do not run or govern on wildly out-of-touch social positions,” the group alleged in a new memo identifying dozens of phrases that Democrats should avoid. “But voters would be excused to believe we do because of the words that come out of our mouths — words which sound like we are hiding behind unfamiliar phrases to mask extreme intent.”
Yes, there are literally memos publicly available about this.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
6d ago
I'm trying not to buy games anymore unless I'm going to play them right fucking now. The shelf of shame is just too weighty.
Currently my spare time is heavily invested in Mechwarrior 5 and it's new DLC.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
6d ago
I vaguely remember that movie! I think I enjoyed it. I remember I loved Nick Cage in it, and somehow his trademark over performance seemed perfectly suited for his role in the film. Maybe I should give it another spin.
Have you ever seen Shoot Em Up? It's fantastic. Has some of the worst written dialog you'll ever hear, and two award winning actors chewing the scenery and giving that terrible dialog all they possibly can. Also does a great job of constantly escalating the action to increasingly outlandish and cartoonish places. It's a delight to see what absurdity they come up with next.
It was probably my favorite action flick up until I saw John Wick, and even then I should probably rewatch them both to really help me decide their ranking.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
6d ago
That's too bad. I keep seeing these memes going around that all the remaining mainstream review sites that nobody has any respect for (IGN, PCGamer, etc) hated it. But I can't see that they've reviewed it at all, because there are no review copies. I'll probably grab it on Switch 2 at some point, unless community consensus decides that it's a completely bomb.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
8d ago
He’s getting away with it, and that’s not a good thing.
I mean, I know this just falls under "Everything that might be considered an overreach is justified by his supporters because at one point, a Democrat did something similar." but... uncritically yes? Like why does this just fall under immediate dismissal? Some sort of throw away line said with a sneer to dismiss the argument just 'cause?
Why shouldn't Red Tribers finally rejoice that one of their guys is finally just doing things like mass deportations, fighting crime and pulling school funding, in the way Democrat's "just did" lockdowns, and vaccine mandates, and eviction moratoriums, and trans kids in schools? Why should they care about the naked corruption when for my entire adult life the corruption was already pretty out there and naked? Did Trump rip off the last fig leaf? Maybe, but it was a pretty damned wilted and decayed fig leaf already. Also I'll gladly take a hospitality industrial complex over a military industrial complex any day.
And I mean... the cherry on top is Trump is a New York City Democrat. He literally learned all this from playing with the other team for 60 years. He just lost the protection of the respectability cartel which covers for that side relentlessly. Your sneering "a Democrat did something similar" is our lived "Democrats have done this to us for our entire lives, my business was bankrupted, I've been ethnically cleansed from my home town, and now my kid wants to get sterilized because of what they were taught in school."
You have it lodged in your brain that there were rules, but when "Democrats did something similar" it didn't count. It all counts, and now there are no rules.
I remember being a junior in highschool when 9/11 happened. In the ramp up to the war in Iraq, closer to when I went or was already off to college, anti war protesters were a common object of mockery. I'll never completely forget this one clip. The details are fuzzy. He was holding some sign like "Arrest Bush" or "Bush is a War Criminal", you know the type. He had a slight speech impediment, accent, or both. And some conservative was asking him loaded questions like "Don't you think Iraq is the most dangerous country to world peace?" and the protester, in his weird mush mouth way of speaking went "I think the United States is the most dangerous country to world peace."
Like I said, something to all that effect. I doubtlessly have the details wrong. It was 25 years ago, and some throw away clip on cable news. But I remember my mind exploded. How could this guy be that fucking stupid? What the fuck. What a moron. What a rube. How delusional.
I'm sorry unwashed protester with a slight speech impediment on the TV. I didn't know better.
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