eVille Times

Dec 6, 2016

Chris Hedges

There is something kind of appealing to the notion of just blowing it all up and starting over. But you almost never get anything straightened out or settled that way. What you wanted the new thing to look like when you started the destruction is never what you end up with.

Revolutionaries always come in promising bread and freedom, and they always fail to deliver anything but a very long period of even greater suffering, because all that really happens is an exchange of one Ruling Elite for another.

Evolution not revolution.

hat tip = MockPaperScissors

Samantha Bee

Keith

On fire.

Watch this video on The Scene.

Today's Tweet

4-year-old: *dumps a pile of chocolate out of her stocking*

Me: What did Saint Nicholas bring you?

4: Breakfast.
— James Breakwell (@XplodingUnicorn) December 6, 2016

Jay Smooth

On getting back to work.

No matter what, you still chop the wood and you still carry the water.

Today's Pix

Dec 5, 2016

New Art Installation

"Flint" by TiRock. Art Basel in Miami. pic.twitter.com/7iW6XgQB6Q

— NANA JIBRIL 🌙 (@girlswithtoys) December 5, 2016

The 2016 Song

hat tip = Facebook buddy Gretchen D

Today's Quote

An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that a deed must be done instead of a prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanquished, war eliminated.

--Madalyn Murray O'Hair

Be Aware

And, oh yeah - fuck you, Alex Jones.

Today's Tweet

Hillary Clinton's margin in the popular vote is now approx 2.7 mil more than Trump. https://t.co/5DS4Vpxckx
— Soledad O'Brien (@soledadobrien) December 5, 2016

While Trump is tweeting about the landslide he "won" - there must always be the revisioning.

The Face Of Terrorism

Edgar Maddison Welch:

From a piece at Heavy:

A 28-year-old North Carolina man is accused of firing a gun inside a Washington, D.C. pizza place after he went to “self-investigate” an election-related “fictitious online conspiracy theory,” police say.

Edgar Maddison Welch entered the Comet Ping Pong restaurant, which was packed with customers, about 3 p.m. Sunday, and pointed a gun at an employee, the D.C. Metro Police Department said in a press release.

The employees and diners inside the restaurant were able to flee, and police said Welch, of Salisbury, fired his gun after they left.

--and--

The “PizzaGate” conspiracy theory was spawned out of Wikileaks emails in November, and involves claims that leaders of the Democratic Party, including Hillary and Bill Clinton and Clinton campaign manager John Podesta, were part of a pedophilia ring operating out of the Comet Ping Pong pizza place, according to the BBC.

No evidence has been found to confirm the theory, which has been debunked by Snopes, many news sites, including the New York Times, and also on Fox News.

The bullshit story was debunked on DumFux News, but because Fox is no longer the information source of choice for anyone under about 65, bugbrains like this Welch guy never get the word (not that bugbrains are gonna care about what is or isn't true).

And that's where we're getting to now. For a long time I thought people were just having a hard time figuring out how to tell the difference between the hoax and the real deal, but that ain't it. A pretty substantial slice of the American pie chart is convinced they get to choose their own reality. And I know that's not exactly news to anybody, but I think it's important to remind ourselves that it's becoming very pronounced, and to understand that it's starting to produce some very bad outcomes.

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