Wednesday, October 10, 2018
Tuesday, October 09, 2018
How Stuff Works
The bots and various other rat-fuckers are hard at it, kids.
Bob Brigham, RawStory:
Conservatives in the United States helped spread a fake video against “manspreading” that resulted in a misogynistic backlash against women.
The video purportedly shows a feminist woman pouring a mix of water and bleach on the crotches of multiple men riding on a subway, who were “manspreading” by widening their legs into the area in front of adjacent seats.
The website EU vs Disinfo reported on Monday that the video features paid actors. The report originated with the Russian language online magazine Bumaga, which interviewed one of the men seen in the video.
Conservatives in the United States spread the video, including The Blaze (founded by conservative radio personality Glenn Beck), The Daily Wire (founded by conservative commentator Ben Shapiro) and the website Chicks on Right.
Bob Brigham, RawStory:
Conservatives in the United States helped spread a fake video against “manspreading” that resulted in a misogynistic backlash against women.
The video purportedly shows a feminist woman pouring a mix of water and bleach on the crotches of multiple men riding on a subway, who were “manspreading” by widening their legs into the area in front of adjacent seats.
The website EU vs Disinfo reported on Monday that the video features paid actors. The report originated with the Russian language online magazine Bumaga, which interviewed one of the men seen in the video.
Conservatives in the United States spread the video, including The Blaze (founded by conservative radio personality Glenn Beck), The Daily Wire (founded by conservative commentator Ben Shapiro) and the website Chicks on Right.
“In other words, the video stages extreme feminist activism and manages to provoke extreme anti-feminist reactions,” EU vs Disinfo noted.
Monday, October 08, 2018
What Up Widdat?
NSFW
This one came over the toobz today from a coupla different places.
I don't check Breitbart a lot, but I check. Same with Fox Nation and some others. What am I missing?
This one came over the toobz today from a coupla different places.
Seems to me, as hung up as we are on trying to run this joint down the middle, we oughta see just as many of these coming from "the other side", shouldn't we?
I mean, if we're stuck in this tribal struggle and both sides are firmly entrenched, locked in some kind of tit-for-tat exchange, we should see fire from the other side.
We hear Cult45 - kinda all the time - railing about violence coming from "the left" and what a hellscape America is becoming because the Dems have allowed rampaging bands of illegal immigrant MS13 monsters and blah blah blah.
Shouldn't there be plenty of video on that shit? The same as there's practically never a day goes by that we don't see some white jagoff raggin' on brown people?
I don't check Breitbart a lot, but I check. Same with Fox Nation and some others. What am I missing?
It's Coming
Unfortunately - and it seems ridiculous to hear myself say it - the real shit storm doesn't really have a lot to do with Cult45.
INCHEON, South Korea — A landmark report from the United Nations’ scientific panel on climate change paints a far more dire picture of the immediate consequences of climate change than previously thought and says that avoiding the damage requires transforming the world economy at a speed and scale that has “no documented historic precedent.”
The report, issued on Monday by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a group of scientists convened by the United Nations to guide world leaders, describes a world of worsening food shortages and wildfires, and a mass die-off of coral reefs as soon as 2040 — a period well within the lifetime of much of the global population.
The report “is quite a shock, and quite concerning,” said Bill Hare, an author of previous I.P.C.C. reports and a physicist with Climate Analytics, a nonprofit organization. “We were not aware of this just a few years ago.” The report was the first to be commissioned by world leaders under the Paris agreement, the 2015 pact by nations to fight global warming.
The authors found that if greenhouse gas emissions continue at the current rate, the atmosphere will warm up by as much as 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit (1.5 degrees Celsius) above preindustrial levels by 2040, inundating coastlines and intensifying droughts and poverty. Previous work had focused on estimating the damage if average temperatures were to rise by a larger number, 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit (2 degrees Celsius), because that was the threshold scientists previously considered for the most severe effects of climate change.
Because guys like me didn't do enough.
BTW - it's not the heat, or the water quality, or the water quantity that gets ya. It's the total disruption in politics and economics that get ya.
We already see a lot of shit because of an immigration rate of a few hundredths of a percent moving to a handful of lily white countries. Imagine what happens when 10 or 15 or 25% of the world population - from the poorest parts of the world - the brownest parts of the world - begin "encroaching" on prissy white societies everywhere.
The report, issued on Monday by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a group of scientists convened by the United Nations to guide world leaders, describes a world of worsening food shortages and wildfires, and a mass die-off of coral reefs as soon as 2040 — a period well within the lifetime of much of the global population.
The report “is quite a shock, and quite concerning,” said Bill Hare, an author of previous I.P.C.C. reports and a physicist with Climate Analytics, a nonprofit organization. “We were not aware of this just a few years ago.” The report was the first to be commissioned by world leaders under the Paris agreement, the 2015 pact by nations to fight global warming.
The authors found that if greenhouse gas emissions continue at the current rate, the atmosphere will warm up by as much as 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit (1.5 degrees Celsius) above preindustrial levels by 2040, inundating coastlines and intensifying droughts and poverty. Previous work had focused on estimating the damage if average temperatures were to rise by a larger number, 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit (2 degrees Celsius), because that was the threshold scientists previously considered for the most severe effects of climate change.
So eat your vegetables; don't smoke; always wear your helmet when you're out getting plenty of healthy exercise on your bike - and you'll prob'ly survive long enough to suffer some horrible shit because of Climate Change.
Because guys like me didn't do enough.
BTW - it's not the heat, or the water quality, or the water quantity that gets ya. It's the total disruption in politics and economics that get ya.
We already see a lot of shit because of an immigration rate of a few hundredths of a percent moving to a handful of lily white countries. Imagine what happens when 10 or 15 or 25% of the world population - from the poorest parts of the world - the brownest parts of the world - begin "encroaching" on prissy white societies everywhere.
Another Year - Another Nuthin'
As of yesterday, DumFux News has been a thing for 22 years.
Here's a list of all the journalism awards they've garnered since their inception in 1996:
I'm sure their moms are very proud.
Here's a list of all the journalism awards they've garnered since their inception in 1996:
I'm sure their moms are very proud.
Today's Tweet
A man seen as a possible danger to the Putin/Trump criminal nexus was killed in a helicopter crash recently - and it's being reported the pilot was found to have been shot, and that there was damage to a rotor blade caused by gunfire.
Now this:
another journalist has been murdered, once again for investigating corruption. This is the defining issue of our era. https://t.co/itk1NQbCaM— Anne Applebaum (@anneapplebaum) October 7, 2018
Unafraid
"I wasn't in favor of rounding up brown people and putting their children in cages, but then I saw a liberal being rude on TV, so I'm here to vote the straight GOP ticket because now I think we should go ahead and kill them all - that'll show those Democrats."
Oh no - don't make 45*'s base mad - they'll turn out and vote, and it'll just get worse.
It's bullshit, even though it's not total bullshit. Getting mad in the face of your legitimate criticism is a predictable reaction of the abusive Daddy State asshole - time-honored, tried-n-true, and it's the first thing they do every fuckin' time outa the box. They do it because it works.
We may indeed feel fear because we've already seen some of what they're capable of doing - the utter depravity they seem to embrace as part of a political strategy.
Your fears are real. The danger is real. 45* has already been signaling the possibility that Americans will start to die some time after the midterms.
The point though is that we have to stand and face it anyway. Because the good news is that a fair bit of that red-faced spittle-flecked anger on the part of the MAGA rubes and Lord Commander Bone Spurs is bluff and bluster.
More than anything else, bullies need to see you cower. Take away the power of the threat - making them put up or shut up - and an awful lot of this bullshit just falls away.
Paraphrasing the little brown man in the funny clothes:
They may arrest me; fine me; take away my possessions. They may put me in prison; torture me, and beat me until they kill me. Then they will have my dead broken body - but they will never have my obedience.
Some bullies are just natural born dicks, always looking to blow things up and knock people down. But they're the exception. Most bullies operate under a false sense of righteousness, thinking they're being reluctant heroes. Challenge that mindset - just telling them they're wrong; that they were lied to - and they can become confused, and downright docile.
I've seen it. I've done it - on more than a couple of occasions. And I've not gotten my ass kicked.
Yet.
Oh no - don't make 45*'s base mad - they'll turn out and vote, and it'll just get worse.
It's bullshit, even though it's not total bullshit. Getting mad in the face of your legitimate criticism is a predictable reaction of the abusive Daddy State asshole - time-honored, tried-n-true, and it's the first thing they do every fuckin' time outa the box. They do it because it works.
We may indeed feel fear because we've already seen some of what they're capable of doing - the utter depravity they seem to embrace as part of a political strategy.
Your fears are real. The danger is real. 45* has already been signaling the possibility that Americans will start to die some time after the midterms.
The point though is that we have to stand and face it anyway. Because the good news is that a fair bit of that red-faced spittle-flecked anger on the part of the MAGA rubes and Lord Commander Bone Spurs is bluff and bluster.
More than anything else, bullies need to see you cower. Take away the power of the threat - making them put up or shut up - and an awful lot of this bullshit just falls away.
Paraphrasing the little brown man in the funny clothes:
They may arrest me; fine me; take away my possessions. They may put me in prison; torture me, and beat me until they kill me. Then they will have my dead broken body - but they will never have my obedience.
Some bullies are just natural born dicks, always looking to blow things up and knock people down. But they're the exception. Most bullies operate under a false sense of righteousness, thinking they're being reluctant heroes. Challenge that mindset - just telling them they're wrong; that they were lied to - and they can become confused, and downright docile.
I've seen it. I've done it - on more than a couple of occasions. And I've not gotten my ass kicked.
Yet.
Sunday, October 07, 2018
Today's Tweet
Read your Driftglass
You'll never go broke betting on the depravity, pig-ignorance and cowardice of Republicans.— driftglass (@Mr_Electrico) October 7, 2018
Of course, on the one hand it will render you too strident for anyone anywhere to touch you with a barge pole...
- and -
Saturday, October 06, 2018
Podcast
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Episode 461 - that's 461 weeks in a row - almost 9 years straight.
Lady Gaga:
Friday, October 05, 2018
A PSA
From your elders, courtesy knockthe.vote
Because we've been counting on you to show up for quite a while now, but you never do.
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