Driving around town I see a lot of yards with signs for local/state/congressional Democratic candidates, and in almost every location (as in, "only two counterexamples so far") there's also a Harris/Walz sign.
The opposite is the case for yards with Republican signs; so far I've only seen two Trump signs (and they're both "TRUMP 2024", no mention of Vance) and in one place the Trump sign is the only sign present.
I'm not sure what this means, maybe it doesn't mean anything, but it's something I've noticed.
"“Are we looking at crime rates at a return to pre-pandemic levels? I think a reasonable person would look at that and say, ‘Yes, that’s what has happened,’” Griffith said in an interview with The Associated Press."
"They went out of their way to make sure that the players were not fanservice. They wanted the focus to be on fun gameplay and not some weird Rule 34 stuff."
Yes, well.
I remember someone on Twitter saying "the surest sign that your game's a loser is when nobody is making non-ironic porn of your characters."
how dare he start to say the word "migrants", get confused for a second and think he should have said "immigrants", then change his mind and keep going with the original word!
" This means that the public choice/vote has not yet been exercised and determined, nor is there a violent militant group of people working to install said future dictator."
buddy, the election had happened and Biden was the winner; that the transfer-of-power ceremony had not yet been held did not mean that Trump wasn't hoping the normal mechanisms of government would be subverted.
yeah it really does suck how police just randomly pull out their pistols and gun some dude down without warning or notice or even a really good reason, right? like i didn't read the article or anything but im sure it went down exactly like the people on twitter said it did, it's only those icky racist Republicans who would leave relevant details out of a story because they want people to think by bellyfeel right?
Is it an eds-and-meds thing, where an urban center sets up a bunch of medical facilities as well as the technical schools to train the nurses to work in them, the medical schools to teach the doctors to run them, the detox centers to provide the addict-to-sobriety-volunteer pathway to find customers for them, and gets the state and federal governments to pay for all of this (with Medicaid and Medicare)?
But wouldn't you say that it's important sometimes to tell a story that might not be entirely true, just to draw attention to a genuine problem, and that anyway you can hardly blame someone for getting so excited about an actual problem that they got caught up in the moment and didn't 100% check every single solitary little syllable that came out of their mouth? Don't you careabout racism?
It's a combination of Forrest Grump and Ancient Astronauts. "Turns out that This One Dude was present at and often the instigator of every significant event of the past few hundred years".
"As you can see from this very thread, “nuclear power” is just the shiny chaff deployed by conservatives in a frantic attempt to escape from the absurdity of their own position."
are you really so addicted to the joy of angry hate that when someone says straight out "we support nuclear generation as a means to combat climate change" you have no thought in your head other than "you're a lying liar telling lies because you like oil money too much and you're LYING"
*shrug* I think it's been incontrovertibly established that we're allowed to criticize you based on who endorses you, whether or not you sought that endorsement or touted it. Might as well lean into it. And after all, if that guy's too rotten ever for Voldemort, doesn't that say something about him?
"I went to a college in the Northeast that was expensive even in 1998 and there were plenty of well-to do students but my memory of the place is that behavior like this would get you mocked and it was even looked down upon to wear too nice clothing."
Which was itself an expression of fashion, just a different sort of fashion than we see now.
When I moved into the Interns Apartment during college, there was a basket on the table with a bouquet of flowers. They were there when I moved in, stayed the whole time, and were there when I went back six months later for the next shift.
At one point my parents visited. My mom looked at the flowers and said "aww, who died?" Turns out the flowers had a card saying "our dearest sympathy for your loss".
Nixon, nobody's idea of a squishy soft liberal, created the EPA.
Conservatives are entirely on board with reducing environmental damage if you don't try to tell them that Suffering, Being Good For The Soul, Is Actually A Benefit They Should Welcome. If nuclear power made electricity cheap enough that every parking space came with a free extension cord, they'd go for that.
"The demand for cheaper labor is infinite. I’m sure that there’d be a return to slavery if management could find a way to get away with it."
You're in good company with this thinking:
“The fact is, that civilisation requires slaves. The Greeks were quite right there. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture and contemplation become almost impossible. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralising. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends. ”
― Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man under Socialism
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On “History Will Be Made: Harris VS Trump”
Driving around town I see a lot of yards with signs for local/state/congressional Democratic candidates, and in almost every location (as in, "only two counterexamples so far") there's also a Harris/Walz sign.
The opposite is the case for yards with Republican signs; so far I've only seen two Trump signs (and they're both "TRUMP 2024", no mention of Vance) and in one place the Trump sign is the only sign present.
I'm not sure what this means, maybe it doesn't mean anything, but it's something I've noticed.
On “Open Mic for the week of 9/23/2024”
...so what were you doing on October 8th, 2023?
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"What are you trying to do? Do you have any side that you are on besides provocation?"
He's trying to do the same thing that, say, Saul does when he posts a story of some example of odious Republican behavior.
"
"“Are we looking at crime rates at a return to pre-pandemic levels? I think a reasonable person would look at that and say, ‘Yes, that’s what has happened,’” Griffith said in an interview with The Associated Press."
WOMP WOMP
On “History Will Be Made: Harris VS Trump”
The knives should've come out in 2016; Stein voters would've made the margin in the Blue Wall states that Clinton lost.
On “Mindless Diversions Extra: The Audience That Wasn’t There”
"They went out of their way to make sure that the players were not fanservice. They wanted the focus to be on fun gameplay and not some weird Rule 34 stuff."
Yes, well.
I remember someone on Twitter saying "the surest sign that your game's a loser is when nobody is making non-ironic porn of your characters."
On “Open Mic for the week of 9/16/2024”
how dare he start to say the word "migrants", get confused for a second and think he should have said "immigrants", then change his mind and keep going with the original word!
clearly racist.
"
" This means that the public choice/vote has not yet been exercised and determined, nor is there a violent militant group of people working to install said future dictator."
buddy, the election had happened and Biden was the winner; that the transfer-of-power ceremony had not yet been held did not mean that Trump wasn't hoping the normal mechanisms of government would be subverted.
"
yeah it really does suck how police just randomly pull out their pistols and gun some dude down without warning or notice or even a really good reason, right? like i didn't read the article or anything but im sure it went down exactly like the people on twitter said it did, it's only those icky racist Republicans who would leave relevant details out of a story because they want people to think by bellyfeel right?
"
I guess if it takes a Republican doing it for you to learn about "spin", well, at least now you've learned it.
On “Missing the Forest for the Trees on Springfield”
Or this guy!
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"That’s how sociopaths think.
That everyone is corrupt, everyone is venal, and anyone who says otherwise is smug and hypocritical."
aren't you the dude saying that every person who isn't you is a racist idiot?
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Maybe you're a vampire and you meant veinal. Bluh!
"
Is it an eds-and-meds thing, where an urban center sets up a bunch of medical facilities as well as the technical schools to train the nurses to work in them, the medical schools to teach the doctors to run them, the detox centers to provide the addict-to-sobriety-volunteer pathway to find customers for them, and gets the state and federal governments to pay for all of this (with Medicaid and Medicare)?
"
But wouldn't you say that it's important sometimes to tell a story that might not be entirely true, just to draw attention to a genuine problem, and that anyway you can hardly blame someone for getting so excited about an actual problem that they got caught up in the moment and didn't 100% check every single solitary little syllable that came out of their mouth? Don't you careabout racism?
On “Saturday Morning Gaming: Returning to Old Games and Rediscovering Who You Used to Be”
It's a combination of Forrest Grump and Ancient Astronauts. "Turns out that This One Dude was present at and often the instigator of every significant event of the past few hundred years".
On “The Party of the Middle”
"Can you provide an example of conservative proposals for reducing environmental damage that is less than half a century old?"
Yes?
"As you can see from this very thread, “nuclear power” is just the shiny chaff deployed by conservatives in a frantic attempt to escape from the absurdity of their own position."
are you really so addicted to the joy of angry hate that when someone says straight out "we support nuclear generation as a means to combat climate change" you have no thought in your head other than "you're a lying liar telling lies because you like oil money too much and you're LYING"
On “Open Mic for the week of 9/9/2024”
*shrug* I think it's been incontrovertibly established that we're allowed to criticize you based on who endorses you, whether or not you sought that endorsement or touted it. Might as well lean into it. And after all, if that guy's too rotten ever for Voldemort, doesn't that say something about him?
"
the Vibe Shift isn't all bad, it seems.
On “Anatomy of a Conspiracy Theory”
Glad we cleared that up. Now let's get back to the real things that definitely happened, like how JD Vance used couch cushions to jerk off.
On “Open Mic for the week of 9/9/2024”
"I went to a college in the Northeast that was expensive even in 1998 and there were plenty of well-to do students but my memory of the place is that behavior like this would get you mocked and it was even looked down upon to wear too nice clothing."
Which was itself an expression of fashion, just a different sort of fashion than we see now.
"
When I moved into the Interns Apartment during college, there was a basket on the table with a bouquet of flowers. They were there when I moved in, stayed the whole time, and were there when I went back six months later for the next shift.
At one point my parents visited. My mom looked at the flowers and said "aww, who died?" Turns out the flowers had a card saying "our dearest sympathy for your loss".
"
actually I don't think pudding is a big part of Haitian cuisine so this probably isn't a blood libel
On “The Party of the Middle”
Nixon, nobody's idea of a squishy soft liberal, created the EPA.
Conservatives are entirely on board with reducing environmental damage if you don't try to tell them that Suffering, Being Good For The Soul, Is Actually A Benefit They Should Welcome. If nuclear power made electricity cheap enough that every parking space came with a free extension cord, they'd go for that.
"
"The demand for cheaper labor is infinite. I’m sure that there’d be a return to slavery if management could find a way to get away with it."
You're in good company with this thinking:
“The fact is, that civilisation requires slaves. The Greeks were quite right there. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture and contemplation become almost impossible. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralising. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends. ”
― Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man under Socialism
*Comment archive for non-registered commenters assembled by email address as provided.