Joe Biden. Joe Biden. Joe fucking fucking motherfucking Biden. In a country of 328 million people the guy that gets elevated to the top is literally one of the very worst human beings in the entire population. That’s the “democracy” you’re being told is under attack.
And this isn’t even prime Joe Biden. This is coming out of retirement for a half-assed exhibition match Joe Biden. This is way past sell-by date Joe Biden. This is Joe Biden with missing pieces. That’s the sort of animal that rises to the highest elected office in US “democracy”.
The inauguration was a whole internet of liberals performing amazing mental contortions to forget that Joe Biden is a disgusting piece of shit. Now everyone has forgotten who Joe Biden is, including Joe Biden. A nationwide dementiafest.
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Obama campaigned on Hope and Change and delivered nothing but neoliberal oppression and imperialist mass murder. Biden campaigned on “Fuck you, no” and people think he’s somehow going to deliver something positive.
People are so cute.
You can do it Democrats! Just two years of stalling progressive change before you lose the House and Senate and can start claiming the lack of progress is due to an obstructionist congress!
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I still can’t get over the fact that Dems consciously chose not to give Americans the amount of money they said they would. They discussed it, then said “Nah. Too much. Subtract that $600 from before.”
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Leftist: There’s been a bombing!
Liberal: Oh no! Where??
Leftist: The Middle East and Africa mostly. Our government drops bombs there every day.
Liberal: Ohh thank God. I thought you meant a bombing of real people.
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Ask people if they believe all lives are of equal value regardless of where in the world they live and how much money they have, and most will tell you yes. But if you look at their worldviews and the lives those worldviews tend to snuff out, for most the real answer would be no.
The majority of the people who rightly say Black lives matter give zero fucks about the people of color who are being butchered by the US empire in the Global South right now. Mass media punditry trains people to only values the lives in their own part of the world.
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Being an anti-imperialist in this society is like being the black sheep of the family who never gets invited to holiday dinners because she always brings up the fact that Uncle Larry is a child molester.
Every day Biden chooses not to move on ending the war in Yemen translates directly into many more dead children. This is not an exaggeration, it is a fact. It requires much, much more urgency than it’s getting.
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Trump’s actions in Yemen alone make him a monster whose name should only be spoken with disgust. If you abhor Obama for his warmongering there’s no legitimate reason not to abhor Trump as well.
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Trump was none of the things Democrats said he was and none of the things Republicans said he was and all of the things they both are.
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There are already at least three likely 2024 presidential candidates against whom the Democratic candidate would be the lesser evil: Mike Pompeo, Nikki Haley, and Tom Cotton. This system is designed to feed you an endless river of evil so that you are floating in evil all the time no matter how you vote.
The way to stop the rise of right wing extremism and conspiracy theories is to end government corruption and government secrecy, not to implement authoritarian measures under the banner of fighting terrorism. This is obvious to everyone who isn’t an idiot.
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To stop fascism they’ll roll out Patriot Act 2, secretly implement more FBI programs, surveil, censor, militarize, anything except change the conditions which feed into the rise of fascism.
Because their rule depends upon those conditions.
And because they’re fine with fascism.
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Socialists who promote socialism using esoteric leftist jargon that ordinary people don’t understand aren’t really interested in promoting socialism. It’s just a nerdy hobby for them. They’re the same as Star Trek nerds speaking Klingon.
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One advantage the far right has over us is that the mainstream consent-manufacturing shitlib culture that is churned out 24/7 by Hollywood is so plainly artificial and cringey. The left needs to fight back by creating culture, real culture, authentic art and media that moves something deep in people, and by rejecting the establishment’s conveyor belt culture instead of just its politics.
This is why something as simple as Bernie Sanders turning up in mittens captured everyone’s hearts and imaginations. It was such a glitch in the whole phony performance and such a nice break from being lied to all the fucking time. We need to give people that experience way more.
Trust in the plutocratic media is at an all-time low and our ability to network and share information is at an all-time high. We absolutely do have a window to wake each other up from the propaganda and create a healthy world. But internet censorship is creeping forward, so means it must be soon.
#5: NeoconsNailed To: ghostdogtxn (#2)
There's something refreshing about that, eventho Caitlin comes up with some good material ;)
NeoconsNailed posted on 2021-01-23 14:10:18 Reply Private Reply
#6: ghostdogtxn To: NeoconsNailed (#5)
ghostdogtxn posted on 2021-01-23 14:11:19 Reply Private Reply
#7: Esso To: ghostdogtxn, 4um (#6)
Esso posted on 2021-01-23 14:28:24 Reply Private Reply
#8: NeoconsNailed To: Esso (#7)
NeoconsNailed posted on 2021-01-23 15:39:34 Reply Private Reply
#9: Esso To: NeoconsNailed (#8)
Holy crap. This dude's a stone killer.
And I thought I was bad.
(Edit) Yeah, I know that you're not supposed to start a sentence with "and." I got my [ego] dragged through the dirt about that in second or third grade a lifetime ago. I did it for emphasis.
Esso posted on 2021-01-23 15:47:15 Reply Private Reply
#10: Esso To: Lod, 4um (#9)
Holy crap. This dude's a stone killer, and I thought I was bad. (Rev. 1)
Loddy, can you diagram this for me? As I recall, you're 4um's resident English genius.
I'm a multi-lingual illiterate. There's a whole lot of languages that I can't speak, read or write.
All I know is, that I'll never run the movie "Солярис" (с тифлокомментариями) (фантастика, реж. Андрей Тарковский, 1972 г.) (Solaris 1972) on the ChromeBook on my nightstand to go to sleep by.
Man, did that ever give me some wicked nightmares. I'm glad that I didn't have to go to the jobsite today.
(Edit) There's a really pretty Slav girl at ~7:22 that may be Melania Trump. Just sayin'.
I'll bet that gal's a stunner today, but then again, a lot of Russian gals didn't age very well.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEZlReSDRl4
Esso posted on 2021-01-23 16:23:42 Reply Private Reply
#11: NeoconsNailed To: Esso (#10)
en.wikipedia.o rg/wiki/Solaris_(1972_film)
NeoconsNailed posted on 2021-01-23 16:33:04 Reply Private Reply
#12: Esso To: NeoconsNailed, 4um (#11)
I sleep with stuff running on EweToob at night to try to mitigate my tinnitus. I haven't heard quiet for a little over seven years now. The MDs told me to run a fan or something, but that just puts noise-on- noise. The TeeVee I used to use got hit by lightning several years ago.
Thank you, Honda engineers. I'd probably think I was dead if my hearing ever went quiet.
Esso posted on 2021-01-23 16:46:24 Reply Private Reply
#13: Ada To: ghostdogtxn (#4)
She describes herself as a Rogue journalist. Bogan socialist. Anarcho- psychonaut. Guerilla poet. Utopia prepper.
Apparently "Bogan" is the Australian equivalent of redneck.
"Anarcho-psychonaut" is not about government but rather a belief that humans are capable of evolving into something better. Might involve drugs but I'm not sure.
Regarding anarchists, she wrote:
It's crazy how many so-called anarchists wind up advocating the same regime change agendas as the CIA and the US State Department. Like "Yeah I'm so anti-authoritarian I want the single most powerful authoritarian force on the planet to shore up even more control over the world."
Ada posted on 2021-01-23 16:57:28 Reply Private Reply
#14: Esso To: Ada, 4um (#13)
More like uncouth, but I suppose redneck is on target also.
Bogan is, I think the first purely Aussie word. First one I know anyway.
Esso posted on 2021-01-23 17:20:01 Reply Private Reply
#15: NeoconsNailed To: Esso (#12)
NeoconsNailed posted on 2021-01-23 18:39:06 Reply Private Reply
#16: NeoconsNailed To: Esso (#9)
NeoconsNailed posted on 2021-01-23 18:41:07 Reply Private Reply
#17: Esso To: NeoconsNailed, 4um (#15)
It is what it is. I'd probably be a little happier about it if was for some "noble cause."
Don't shed too many tears over my lost youth and innocence. Set me up with AOC, I wanna ride...
I'll get to Valhalla, she'll be dinner.
Esso posted on 2021-01-23 18:46:46 Reply Private Reply
#18: BTP Holdings To: Esso (#9)
That would seem to be the proper use of the word in that sense. But don't ask me. I am an old Chicago boy and Chicago English was a bit different than most areas. ;)
BTP Holdings posted on 2021-01-23 19:03:26 Reply Private Reply
#19: NeoconsNailed To: Esso (#17)
NeoconsNailed posted on 2021-01-23 19:45:11 Reply Private Reply
#20: Esso To: BTP Holdings, ghostdogtxn, 4um (#18)
I'm just a Hoosier Hick. I don't know nothin'.
Want a refrigerator that heats your house in the winter and keeps it cool in the summer? It takes about the same pipes as a normal 90%+ furnace.
Want a house that generates its own electricity and water?
Want to have efficient cars?
There's a lot more, but I only give stupid shit away for free. The real deal comes with a cost. Come see the testbed that I'm stuck living in. Open invitation to anybody that thinks that they've got the technical ability to understand it.
Yeah, I know. Have AOC spend a week with me and I'll give the c*nt a green new deal that works, and a little something else if you know what I mean.
And this fucked up country never will. Anymore that you'll have a fair election ever again. I figure I won't see 2021, I just don't really give a fuck anymore. You can lead a horse to water...
Sorry, I'm close to the end and BS isn't cutting it anymore. When I was busy taking care of my dying family, I wasn't wasting any downtime, I was working.
I guess I'm just a kook.
Esso posted on 2021-01-23 19:48:41 Reply Private Reply
#21: NeoconsNailed To: BTP Holdings (#18)
NeoconsNailed posted on 2021-01-23 20:42:30 Reply Private Reply
#22: StraitGate To: Esso, NeoconsNailed (#9)
But misplacing modifiers and misusing personal pronouns (here I mean objective vs. subjective, not that tranny zhe poppycock) are grievous grammatical malefactions. (Could have said gaffes, but must resist my appetition for alliteration.)
StraitGate posted on 2021-01-23 22:41:36 Reply Private Reply
#23: Esso To: StraitGate, Lod, 4um (#22)
I delegate authority, that's why I keep Lod on speed-dial.
Oh crap, speed-dial isn't a thing anymore, is it?
Esso posted on 2021-01-23 22:50:43 Reply Private Reply
#24: Lod To: Esso (#23)
Lod posted on 2021-01-23 23:51:06 Reply Private Reply
#25: StraitGate To: Esso (#23)
Bad at just one thing? Congratulations.
I'm bad at a whole mess of things: flying a helicopter, brain surgery, bagpipes, underwater welding, Swahili, understanding women...
StraitGate posted on 2021-01-23 23:54:57 Reply Private Reply
#26: Esso To: Lod, 4um (#24)
You guys are the only family that I have extant. I wish I could write a book, but would go to prison.
I decided to dribble it out one vignette at a time. Hell, nobody would believe it anyway.
I wish you could've met my buddy Ray, the convict. Man, he made me look like an illiterate dirtbag. He certainly was a classy fella for working at McD's.
Esso posted on 2021-01-24 00:03:16 Reply Private Reply
#27: Esso To: StraitGate, 4um (#25)
I told you I wasn't good at English, I didn't make myself clear. I was talking about language.
I can fly about anything you let me be pilot-in-command of. (Edit) I was always a better weatherman than fright service was. You don't "fly a helicopter" you just kind of think about it. /Edit
I'm not an MD, but I play one for myself.
I've never been musical or artistic.
I suppose if I can weld above ground (arc, mig, tig, whatever) I could probably do it under water, I think Arc is the only one that works. Yes, I have a scuba permit (not active). Nor is my pilot license.
I understand everything that there is to know about women (or whatever their designation is now).
It all comes down to one simple theorem, and I'm quite frankly surprised that you're not aware of it as smart as you are.
"If it's got tits, tires or floats on the water, it's trouble."
(Edit) The thing is helicopters are different from airplanes
An airplane by it's nature wants to fly, and if not interfered with too strongly by unusual events or incompetent piloting, it will fly.
A helicopter does not want to fly. It is maintained in the air by a variety of forces and controls working in opposition to each other.
And if there is any disturbance in this delicate balance the helicopter stops flying immediately and disastrously.
There is no such thing as a gliding helicopter.
That's why being a helicopter pilot is so different from being an airplane pilot, and why in generality airplane pilots are open, clear- eyed, buoyant, extroverts.
And helicopter pilots are brooders, introspective anticipators of trouble.
They know if something bad has not happened it is about to.
I didn't write that, Harry Reasoner did during the Vietnam War.
A lot (alot, allot) of fellas used to say that I've got a "machine gunners outlook."
I know why I got that reputation, now. I'll never drop my sights to worry about what's happening in my face, I look out further.
Sometimes part of the job is knowing when to bow out.
I'm not afraid to die, it would be a great relief.
I'm just sorry that my life's work is going to end up with folks that never knew me or cared about me.
Esso posted on 2021-01-24 00:23:30 Reply Private Reply
#28: StraitGate To: Esso (#26)
I'm glad to be in that number. Do you prefer "Grandpa" or "Pop"?
BTW, your using "extant" contravenes your professed 3rd grade English proficiency.
StraitGate posted on 2021-01-24 00:30:15 Reply Private Reply
#29: StraitGate To: Esso (#27)
Men have many faults;
Women only two:
StraitGate posted on 2021-01-24 00:36:09 Reply Private Reply
#30: Lod To: Esso (#27)
And the corollary I heard years ago, "If it floats, flies, or fucks, rent it, don't own it."
Lod posted on 2021-01-24 00:38:11 Reply Private Reply
#31: Esso To: StraitGate, 4um (#28)
Y'all are my family at 4um. I guess I'll just have to go with Jim, along with Chrissy's cabal of "Jims."
I've got no progeny, I'm the end of the line. I did manage to throw enough money at my neighbors across the street though when the goob was going to take their daughter away for child abuse when they wouldn't pay for root canal work on baby teeth.
I also paid for Lasik surgery when Papa wanted to volunteer for Desert Storm. I told him that you don't want to go into combat with glasses.
I messed up. How was I to know that you couldn't deploy if you've had surgery lately that you couldn't deploy? They made Chris a MP bounty hunter in the states (IN) rounding up the fellas that were not as brave as they thought.
I knew exactly what I was doing at the time. Chris could've been my son, he's probably about $200k in the hole, but he's still got the house and the garage that Mom helped me build for him. My last girly-friend had two great-grandkids.
Esso posted on 2021-01-24 01:26:55 Reply Private Reply
#32: Esso To: Lod, 4um (#30)
Loddy, If you get to (wherever) before me, Dad'll be the young fella hangin' out with Dale Earhardt.
I'm sure we'll part ways.
You left out cars, Dad.
Esso posted on 2021-01-24 01:36:46 Reply Private Reply
#33: Esso To: StraitGate, 4um (#28)
FU. I Doan no nuffin an i dindu it.
Esso posted on 2021-01-24 01:42:40 Reply Private Reply
#34: StraitGate To: Esso (#22)
22 It was at Jerusalem the feast of the dedication, and it was the winter: 23 And Jesus walked in Solomon's hall. 24 Then came the jewes round about him, and said unto him: How long dost thou make us doubt? If thou be Christ, tell us plainly. 25 Jesus answered them: I told you and ye believe not: The works that I do in my father's name, bear witness of me: 26 but ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep. As I said unto you: 27 my sheep, hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me, 28 and I give unto them eternal life, and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. 29 My father which gave them me, is greater then all men, and no man is able to take them out of my father's hand. 30 And I and my father are one.
StraitGate posted on 2021-01-24 02:12:06 Reply Private Reply
#35: StraitGate To: Esso (#33)
StraitGate posted on 2021-01-24 02:16:17 Reply Private Reply
#36: Esso To: StraitGate, 4um (#35)
Kindergarten was a bitch. I could read a clock and read at a low level.
She put me into a new and innovative thing called reading Readyness after kindygarden (Grade (0.5).
Somewhere along the line, Nyla Armstrong's hatred for me melted away in future years.
I managed to do OK, but that homo/creep Fred something-or-other, was weird.
I'm pretty durable, I guess.
Esso posted on 2021-01-24 02:31:01 Reply Private Reply
#37: StraitGate To: Esso (#36)
Dad says I lasted 3 days. Well, that's how long the teacher lasted before she threw me out. When I started 1st grade I didn't even know the alphabet, and most of the other kids could already read. Teacher divided the students into three groups according to reading ability: Eagles, Doves, and Blackbirds (or something like that). I was a blackbird.
My mom, who died a few years ago, always told me the reason they didn't send me to kindergarten was because I was too smart. Only last year did I finally learn the truth -- from my dad: They did send me, but I got thrown out after 3 days.
StraitGate posted on 2021-01-24 02:49:47 Reply Private Reply
#38: Esso To: StraitGate, Christine, 4um (#35)
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Esso posted on 2021-01-24 03:11:36 Reply Private Reply
#39: Esso To: StraitGate (#37)
Shit, that was a lifetime ago. I didn't get anything more done, blah, blah, blah...
Esso posted on 2021-01-24 03:25:28 Reply Private Reply
#40: Esso To: PamPunk, 4um (#39)
Esso posted on 2021-01-24 03:35:32 Reply Private Reply
#41: Esso To: All (#40)
Esso posted on 2021-01-24 04:59:59 Reply Private Reply
#42: NeoconsNailed To: StraitGate (#37)
NeoconsNailed posted on 2021-01-24 05:12:06 Reply Private Reply
#43: NeoconsNailed To: StraitGate (#22)
NeoconsNailed posted on 2021-01-24 05:15:47 Reply Private Reply
#44: StraitGate To: NeoconsNailed (#43)
I can think of only one such poem or hymn: Wesley's And Can It Be, That I Should Gain? Watts wouldn't have done that.
I'll tell you what grates me like Parmigiano-Reggiano: people's using and as the first word of a retort. E.g. the time I told a motel front desk clerk that the sofa on the balcony was dangerously posed, that a child could easily fall to his death if climbing or playing on it as children do. Her answer: "AND why would a child be unattended?"
While we're on the subject, have you noticed people starting conversations with "so" lately? "So, at work today we were all in this meeting, and..."
StraitGate posted on 2021-01-24 09:32:49 Reply Private Reply
#45: StraitGate To: NeoconsNailed (#42)
StraitGate posted on 2021-01-24 09:34:19 Reply Private Reply
#46: Lod To: StraitGate (#44)
I have indeed and here's one of many explanations/theories of this fad ~
www.everythingzoomer.com/...y-people-start-sentences/
Lod posted on 2021-01-24 10:18:44 Reply Private Reply
#47: StraitGate To: Esso (#27)
Life as a man:
vimeo.com/160391837
StraitGate posted on 2021-01-24 12:39:43 Reply Private Reply
#48: NeoconsNailed To: StraitGate (#44)
forums.stevehoffman.tv/th...with- the-word-and.392226/
Haven't noticed that 'so' stuff, thank goodness -- it's really the start of the convo?
NeoconsNailed posted on 2021-01-24 21:52:31 Reply Private Reply
#49: StraitGate To: NeoconsNailed (#48)
Like, totally.
StraitGate posted on 2021-01-24 22:44:08 Reply Private Reply
#50: NeoconsNailed To: StraitGate (#45)
NeoconsNailed posted on 2021-01-24 22:46:27 Reply Private Reply
#51: StraitGate To: Lod (#46)
Sometimes it was "Now, lockaSAY, ...", with a pretty long pause after each of the two words.
StraitGate posted on 2021-01-24 22:53:37 Reply Private Reply
#52: StraitGate To: NeoconsNailed (#50)
Strangely, I don't remember anything about those three days. When we would drive by the little building (in a little country town a couple miles south of our old house), my parents would say There's where Jill and Jack (sibs 2 and 3 years older than I) went to kindergarten. I'd say What about me? They'd answer You didn't go. That was it. I didn't then and still don't remember ever stepping inside that building. They'd call that PTSD today, I guess.
StraitGate posted on 2021-01-24 23:06:31 Reply Private Reply
#53: NeoconsNailed To: StraitGate (#52)
NeoconsNailed posted on 2021-01-25 03:47:56 Reply Private Reply
#54: StraitGate To: NeoconsNailed (#53)
StraitGate posted on 2021-01-25 08:45:59 Reply Private Reply