If I wanted to undermine free speech, I'd argue about it as if it were something that only the government were responsible for protecting. Like, if a private company censored someone, my response would center on "private companies can do whatever they want".
If I wanted to foster a culture of free speech, I'd argue that it's better for these views to be out there. It's better for them to be argued against. It's better for everybody if we all knew where we all stood because, if we engage in speech suppression on a societal (but not to the level of governmental) level, we may find ourselves setting up for a preference cascade that we have no idea how to deal with and using social control tools that crumble to dust in our hands.
As it stands, this silly and stupid act in Mississippi is a natural outgrowth of a society that holds Free Speech in contempt.
Now let's read the article itself...
Clarksdale Mayor Chuck Espy, a Democrat, and the Board of Commissioners filed the petition in Hinds County, calling the editorial “libelous’ and saying the editorial would bring “immediate and irreparable injury” to the city.
Oh, well. You have to understand.
Freedom of the Press doesn't mean Freedom from Consequences. It's not like hate speech is legal. Libel isn't legal either. We all have a responsibility for *RESPONSIBLE* speech.
Which one? Referring to illegal immigrants as "undocumented visitors"? Bringing up "Defund the Police"? Referring to crimes caught on video as "non-representative"?
Okay. We've got a wild ride here. People who enjoy crazy will be delighted.
William Banks is a guy in New York who protested injustice and genocide and all that crap by stealing pro-Israel signs from peoples' yards. He got caught, got arrested, got tried, and got shipped off to the hoosegow for 8 months.
These things happen.
While in prison, he got the nickname "White Moses".
Anyway, he escaped from prison and posted a video of escaping from prison to twitter.
Four months before his prison stay was scheduled to end.
The Qassam Brigades and the resistance were keen to respect the sanctity of the dead and the feelings of their families during the ceremony of handing over the bodies of the prisoners, even though the occupation army did not respect their lives while they were alive.
▪️We preserved the lives of the occupation prisoners, provided them with what we could, and treated them humanely, but their army killed them along with their captors.
▪️The Zionist enemy army killed its prisoners by bombing their detention centers, and the Nazi occupation government bears full responsibility after repeatedly obstructing the exchange agreement.
▪️The criminal Netanyahu is crying today over the bodies of his prisoners who returned to him in coffins, in a blatant attempt to evade responsibility for their killing in front of his audience.
▪️The Qassam Brigades and the resistance did everything in their power to protect the prisoners and preserve their lives, but the barbaric and continuous bombing by the occupation prevented them from being able to save all the prisoners.
▪️To the families of Bibas and Livshts: We would have preferred your sons to return to you alive, but your army and government leaders chose to kill them instead of bringing them back. They killed with them: 17,881 Palestinian children, in their criminal bombing of the Gaza Strip, and we know that you realize who is truly responsible for their departure. You were a victim of a leadership that does not care about its children.*
▪️We emphasize that the exchange is the only way to return the prisoners alive to their families, and any attempt to bring them back by military force or return to war will only result in more losses among the prisoners.
Islamic Resistance Movement - Hamas
Thursday: 21 Sha'ban 1446 AH
Corresponding to: February 20, 2025”
The stuff that I think about mass transit in NYC involves "undocumented visitors setting women on fire".
This is one of the reasons that I think that Hochul realizes that she can't replace Adams with a DSA goon. The second the DSA goon becomes mayor, we'll go back to "defund" and then every single idiot with a camera becomes a citizen journalist documenting non-representative assaults on the newly depoliced subway.
As someone on the spectrum, of course I agree with that.
HOWEVER. If I were to put together a case against it, it'd be something to the effect of "the errors that humans introduce make the game itself more interesting". You know the charts that show the most frequent shot locations in the NBA and compare 2002 to the modern day and how 2002 is downright messy compared to today?
It's the messiness that makes the game fun.
That said, a blind umpire is a blind umpire and if they can't tell their butts from a hole in the ground, they're going to find themselves with fewer fans who appreciate the perfection of the machine a heck of a lot more.
Assuming that the IDF is telling the truth, Hamas probably realized that the costs of giving a fake one (and the attendant circuses) are higher than the costs of giving the real one.
He's one of the best talkers the Dems have. He's a McKinsey Consultant to the bone. That appeals to a great many of the elite within the Democratic party and his ability to talk to them on their level and gently explain that stuff didn't work.
There's no way that I could say it in a way that would get them to listen but Pete can.
The problem is that they picked up a *LOT* of bad habits over the last four years and unlearning them and learning new ones will be more painful and take more time than just waiting for Trump to implode.
He that judges the booty is directionally correct and, I want to say, about as extreme in his position as his side will allow. He's calling out the excesses while still focusing on the good intentions of the people who committed them.
He's basically saying that there's a withdrawal but it's not a retreat, it's a recalibration, so on and so forth. Josh Barro, bless him, is going further and is closer to being actually correct rather than merely directionally, but Pete is preaching to the choir and Josh is preaching to the formerly undecideds and being them to become undecided again. Laying groundwork for when Trump gets to be too much again.
As for "BIPOC", the point of BIPOC is that, along with AAPI and LatinX, you can pretty much say "everybody but white people and Jews". Get all of your bases covered.
With the arrival of spring training comes the arrival of the ball-strike challenge system. Each team starts with two challenges. You only lose a challenge if the umpire ends up being wrong.
COMING SOON: The Automated Ball-Strike Challenge System (ABS) presented by @TMobile will be used during Spring Training games for the first time ever.
ABS has been tested in the minor leagues since 2021, and 2025 will be the first test with the Major League players. About 60% of… pic.twitter.com/8Nc91IBfyc
Check this out. Here's what Amnesty International said:
Hamas's release of bodies of 4 Israeli hostages including a mother & her 2 young children –one of them just a nine-month-old baby when abducted-serves as a heartbreaking reminder of the urgent need to immediately release all civilian hostages & Palestinians arbitrarily detained.
"Another Little Drink Wouldn't Do Us Any Harm" is a pretty cute song (I hear some "Turkey in the Straw" influence).
Oh, there was a little hen and she had a wooden leg,
The best little hen that ever laid an egg.
And she laid more eggs than any hen on the farm,
And another little drink wouldn't do us any harm.
Another little drink,
Another little drink,
Another little drink wouldn't do us any harm.
Another little drink,
Another little drink,
Another little drink wouldn't do us any harm.
We had a little duck and a lot of green peas,
A quart of ginger beer and some Stilton cheese,
Then we felt such a pain in the shade of the palm,
And another little drink wouldn't do us any harm.
Another little drink,
Another little drink,
Another little drink wouldn't do us any harm.
Another little drink,
Another little drink,
Another little drink wouldn't do us any harm.
I went to a ball dressed as a map of France,
Said a girl "Show me how the French advance",
When she reach'd the firing line I shouted in alarm,
And another little drink wouldn't do us any harm.
Another little drink,
Another little drink,
Another little drink wouldn't do us any harm.
Another little drink,
Another little drink,
Another little drink wouldn't do us any harm.
If you thought that I was going to make a "why are you talking about this instead of talking about the governor of New York" joke, you've got good instincts but I think that there's more gold to be mined in discussing how even the UN (EVEN THE UN!!!) came out and issued a disapproving statement.
Hamas seems to be going out of its way to alienate freakin' everybody right in the middle of needing a lot of allies.
If I were Egypt/Jordan, I wouldn't want these people to show up on my doorstep either.
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Saul, let me give you a comprehensive list of all of the counties that Harris won in 2024 that Biden did not:
Any questions?
On “Series! Recap of World Series of the 1920s”
They still have to be "well-groomed". None of this Brian Wilson crap.
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If I wanted to undermine free speech, I'd argue about it as if it were something that only the government were responsible for protecting. Like, if a private company censored someone, my response would center on "private companies can do whatever they want".
If I wanted to foster a culture of free speech, I'd argue that it's better for these views to be out there. It's better for them to be argued against. It's better for everybody if we all knew where we all stood because, if we engage in speech suppression on a societal (but not to the level of governmental) level, we may find ourselves setting up for a preference cascade that we have no idea how to deal with and using social control tools that crumble to dust in our hands.
As it stands, this silly and stupid act in Mississippi is a natural outgrowth of a society that holds Free Speech in contempt.
Now let's read the article itself...
Oh, well. You have to understand.
Freedom of the Press doesn't mean Freedom from Consequences. It's not like hate speech is legal. Libel isn't legal either. We all have a responsibility for *RESPONSIBLE* speech.
"
The Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia has released a statement:
"What we saw today in Gaza is a disgrace to Islam, an act of blasphemy against Allah."
On “Series! Recap of World Series of the 1920s”
THE NEW YORK YANKEES ARE NOW ALLOWING BEARDS!!! THIS IS NOT A DRILL!!!
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Which one? Referring to illegal immigrants as "undocumented visitors"? Bringing up "Defund the Police"? Referring to crimes caught on video as "non-representative"?
"
Okay. We've got a wild ride here. People who enjoy crazy will be delighted.
William Banks is a guy in New York who protested injustice and genocide and all that crap by stealing pro-Israel signs from peoples' yards. He got caught, got arrested, got tried, and got shipped off to the hoosegow for 8 months.
These things happen.
While in prison, he got the nickname "White Moses".
Anyway, he escaped from prison and posted a video of escaping from prison to twitter.
Four months before his prison stay was scheduled to end.
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Hamas has released a statement!
"
The stuff that I think about mass transit in NYC involves "undocumented visitors setting women on fire".
This is one of the reasons that I think that Hochul realizes that she can't replace Adams with a DSA goon. The second the DSA goon becomes mayor, we'll go back to "defund" and then every single idiot with a camera becomes a citizen journalist documenting non-representative assaults on the newly depoliced subway.
"
You can't judge whether or not you're a racist oppressor based on whether some of your critics calling you that are dumb.
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The hair dye was a nice touch.
"
Wait.
So the HR types got in as part of a long con to discredit HR types?
This strikes me as one hell of a conspiracy.
I'm on board.
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As someone on the spectrum, of course I agree with that.
HOWEVER. If I were to put together a case against it, it'd be something to the effect of "the errors that humans introduce make the game itself more interesting". You know the charts that show the most frequent shot locations in the NBA and compare 2002 to the modern day and how 2002 is downright messy compared to today?
It's the messiness that makes the game fun.
That said, a blind umpire is a blind umpire and if they can't tell their butts from a hole in the ground, they're going to find themselves with fewer fans who appreciate the perfection of the machine a heck of a lot more.
On “Open Mic for the week of 2/17/2025”
Assuming that the IDF is telling the truth, Hamas probably realized that the costs of giving a fake one (and the attendant circuses) are higher than the costs of giving the real one.
"
He's one of the best talkers the Dems have. He's a McKinsey Consultant to the bone. That appeals to a great many of the elite within the Democratic party and his ability to talk to them on their level and gently explain that stuff didn't work.
There's no way that I could say it in a way that would get them to listen but Pete can.
The problem is that they picked up a *LOT* of bad habits over the last four years and unlearning them and learning new ones will be more painful and take more time than just waiting for Trump to implode.
"
He that judges the booty is directionally correct and, I want to say, about as extreme in his position as his side will allow. He's calling out the excesses while still focusing on the good intentions of the people who committed them.
He's basically saying that there's a withdrawal but it's not a retreat, it's a recalibration, so on and so forth. Josh Barro, bless him, is going further and is closer to being actually correct rather than merely directionally, but Pete is preaching to the choir and Josh is preaching to the formerly undecideds and being them to become undecided again. Laying groundwork for when Trump gets to be too much again.
As for "BIPOC", the point of BIPOC is that, along with AAPI and LatinX, you can pretty much say "everybody but white people and Jews". Get all of your bases covered.
On “Series! Recap of World Series of the 1920s”
Angel Hernandez did so much damage that this is the response.
It will take years to undo it.
"
With the arrival of spring training comes the arrival of the ball-strike challenge system. Each team starts with two challenges. You only lose a challenge if the umpire ends up being wrong.
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Check this out. Here's what Amnesty International said:
Yes. *THAT* is what it is a reminder of.
It's like they're actively trying to set themselves on fire.
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"Another Little Drink Wouldn't Do Us Any Harm" is a pretty cute song (I hear some "Turkey in the Straw" influence).
Oh, there was a little hen and she had a wooden leg,
The best little hen that ever laid an egg.
And she laid more eggs than any hen on the farm,
And another little drink wouldn't do us any harm.
Another little drink,
Another little drink,
Another little drink wouldn't do us any harm.
Another little drink,
Another little drink,
Another little drink wouldn't do us any harm.
We had a little duck and a lot of green peas,
A quart of ginger beer and some Stilton cheese,
Then we felt such a pain in the shade of the palm,
And another little drink wouldn't do us any harm.
Another little drink,
Another little drink,
Another little drink wouldn't do us any harm.
Another little drink,
Another little drink,
Another little drink wouldn't do us any harm.
I went to a ball dressed as a map of France,
Said a girl "Show me how the French advance",
When she reach'd the firing line I shouted in alarm,
And another little drink wouldn't do us any harm.
Another little drink,
Another little drink,
Another little drink wouldn't do us any harm.
Another little drink,
Another little drink,
Another little drink wouldn't do us any harm.
On “Open Mic for the week of 2/17/2025”
If you thought that I was going to make a "why are you talking about this instead of talking about the governor of New York" joke, you've got good instincts but I think that there's more gold to be mined in discussing how even the UN (EVEN THE UN!!!) came out and issued a disapproving statement.
Hamas seems to be going out of its way to alienate freakin' everybody right in the middle of needing a lot of allies.
If I were Egypt/Jordan, I wouldn't want these people to show up on my doorstep either.
Maybe we can send them to Europe.
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Unless minding one’s own business is “privilege.”
Yeah, I was asleep for a lot of 2017-2022 as well. About a third of it.
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Why are you talking about the governor of New York instead of the horrific display of the Bibas children?
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non-members can agree or disagree with the Pope just the same as they can agree or disagree with some random social media pundit.
Yes! The Holy Father is just some random social media pundit.
I mean, he is a particularly prominent one and who is, occasionally, insightful and eloquent...
But, let's face it, he's got a *LOT* of bad advisors and sometimes he also gives less insightful and less eloquent commentary.
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Aaaaaand he just got approved.