Steerzing in a New Direction...

#7381

I thought BLM had peaked with George Floyd, but as per usual I underestimate the capacity for human stupidity.

Black woman and her two kids almost shot dead after black man fires several shots through her apartment building and then fires at police when they arrive to evacuate the building; black man taken out by police sniper after holding black woman and her two kids hostage for six hours; BLM holds a protest for the black man at the site where a mother and two sons were almost killed and then tells her to shut up when she objects to them being there.

I just can't fathom the level of insanity in this story. The mother of the shooter even said the police would not have shot him if he was white. HE WAS ACTIVELY SHOOTING INTO SOMEONE'S HOUSE. HE WAS SHOOTING AT THE POLICE. HE WAS HOLDING THE VICTIMS HOSTAGE. WHAT ARE YOU EVEN ***TALKING*** ABOUT?

There's even a GoFundMe for the SHOOTER that's raised over $20,000, and GoFundMe allows it even though they've explicitly said in the past it wouldn't allow funds being raised for criminals (alleged or otherwise).

https://nypost.com/2022/07/18/gofundme- ... jose-alba/

I'm flabbergasted.

#7382

Pitch... you must be a bit behind on your pit reading... haha. See the prior posts on this. I think Dog posted first and I added some stupid comments, etc.

#7383

John D wrote: ↑ Pitch... you must be a bit behind on your pit reading... haha. See the prior posts on this. I think Dog posted first and I added some stupid comments, etc.

Shit, you're right :whistle: Whoops! Doesn't even count as a ninja, either, I'm just blind :lol:

Anyway, my opinion still stands. Shit's fucked.

#7384

1. the police say they moved the neighbor-lady & her kids away to safety/ then the 6 hour standoff ended with Tekle Sundberg shot dead by snipers.

2. Tekle's social media -- appear to show he was a quirky weirdo/ rather than a gruff toughguy demeanor. Progressive Normie Jill Biden lily-whites think this means he was a delightful 'misunderstood' artist. They don't know his unpredictable demeanor is all-too-familiar in county jails & "the bo-gee-dahs of the Bronx" ...among skinny drug addicts who can't bully with body mass/ so they wear their demented ramblings like they're covered-in-spikes. For defense & offense. And for sympathy.

These details give a shred of legitimacy to the BLM protest... wanting answers... why a sniper shot him. But protesting at his victims' home is retarded.

#7385

AOC has been arrested at the Supreme Court, for leading an insurrection to topple the Federal Government.

She is sorely in need of being slapped-around by Bhurzo-- or any man in a uniform.

She's wearing imaginary PRETEND HANDCUFFS:

#7386

Illhan Omar, not to be outdone, is arrested and ejected by INVISIBLE COPS:

#7387

#7388

Ihlan Omar was also at the protest, joined by her brother and husband. She was arrested, but he was not.

#7389

Girls just want to have fun.

#7390

Service Dog wrote: ↑She is sorely in need of being slapped-around by Bhurzo

https://i.imgflip.com/1pjb92.jpg

Oh yeah!

:P

#7391

#7392

Nerd-porn cranked up to 11...

#7393

Fred the House Wren he been in and out of the pineapple bird house about once every two minutes. It is possible that little chicks are in the nest. I can't see into the nest even though it is close to the window. I don't want to stick my face right up to it.

Played a great robot war game last night. When I complained about my daughter calling me autistic he said.. "All war gamers are autistic." and I replied... "but autism is a mental disorder... I don't think we all have a mental disorder." and he replied "Autism is not a mental disorder... it is a spectrum." He has a son who is medically diagnosed with autism... special school... job as a bagger at Kroger... the real thing. So, this whole topic is weird. The definition of autism is just this sort of vague list of personality traits. Kind of a useless word now. It is like being a nerd makes you autistic. Whatever. Haha.

Much fighting with my wife lately. She went off on my older daughter for being a mooch and ruining our camping trip. My daughter got all in my wife's face and they message each other such things as "Fuck Off" and "Manipulative". Wow. So, my youngest daughter is still gonna camp in her own rig. I am going to join her and my wife is gonna stay home by herself. I will just sleep in a tent which I enjoy... play guitar... drink... and take acid.

#7394

John D wrote: ↑The definition of autism is just this sort of vague list of personality traits. Kind of a useless word now.

It's only a matter of time until it's a sexuality.

https://c.tenor.com/5JUtgd1OxJcAAAAM/do ... ndrome.gif

#7395

John D wrote: ↑House Wren

You could always install monitoring a equipment to keeps labs on them...

...the House Wrens I mean rather than Prima, Secunda and Tertia.

#7396

MarcusAu wrote: ↑
John D wrote: ↑House Wren
You could always install monitoring a equipment to keeps labs on them...

...the House Wrens I mean rather than Prima, Secunda and Tertia.

I have thought about setting up a bird house with a video monitor. I am sure I could size the entry hole to keep out the fucking House Sparrows. I would get a Chickadee or a House Wren. Might be fun. I really didn't think any bird would nest in this silly plastic pineapple birdhouse. I put it up as a decoration next to the window... just for fun. Really surprising that the Wrens are in it.

#7397

Bhurzum wrote: ↑
John D wrote: ↑The definition of autism is just this sort of vague list of personality traits. Kind of a useless word now.
It's only a matter of time until it's a sexuality.

https://c.tenor.com/5JUtgd1OxJcAAAAM/do ... ndrome.gif

nice Prince Harry gif!

#7398

PZ's wet dream is a reality:

https://www.foxnews.com/us/minnesota-ci ... f919e6e029

#7399

Good guy with a gun... and he was a really good shot! 50 yards with a hand gun... damn.

#7400

Gumby wrote: ↑ PZ's wet dream is a reality:

https://www.foxnews.com/us/minnesota-ci ... f919e6e029

The citizens of Morris are probably just as well off with the sheriff. The two cops left in Morris probably just spent all their time doing paperwork.

#7401

John D wrote: ↑ Good guy with a gun... and he was a really good shot! 50 yards with a hand gun... damn.

What's the score now?

Good guy with a gun: 1
Bad guy with a gun: more than 1.

#7402

Lots more.

#7403

John D wrote: ↑ an engineer in a non-engineer environment

If "engineer" is a spectrum, then feminist Naomi Wolf is somewhere on the opposite end.

She's batty, emotive, anxious. (Not compared to other feminists!!... but, still, she's out-past the fulcrum.)

She's also Intelligent... just... not in an orderly engineering way.

Here: she makes the case-- that Pfizer is a subsidiary of the Chinese Communist Party, and we Paid Them to Inject Us with Poison.

https://naomiwolf.substack.com/p/facing-the-beast

#7404

Lsuoma wrote: ↑ What's the score now?

Good guy with a gun: 1
Bad guy with a gun: more than 1.

Are you proposing that the good guys stop waiting-- for the bad guy to start scoring?

#7405

Lsuoma wrote: ↑What's the score now?

#7406

#7407

Until the crazies and the criminals start getting locked up, a good guy with a gun serves as a last line of defense.

18 yo circus freak in a padded cell: 1
His mass shooting victims: 0

Thug who took the room temperature challenge: 1
Thug's future victims: 0

Woman Uses Concealed Handgun To Stop Mass Shooting, Killing The Suspect Who Had AR-15

St. Louis man shoots and kills robbery suspect while stopping at gas station for bathroom break

#7408

My local Meijer just put up a sign indicating no guns. I think they do this to just limit their liability. I suspect they don't really care if a licensed concealed pistol carrier bring in their gun. It is kind of annoying though. I often carry in the store. Now I have to be really careful that I am not detected.

#7409

John D wrote: ↑ My local Meijer just put up a sign indicating no guns. I think they do this to just limit their liability. I suspect they don't really care if a licensed concealed pistol carrier bring in their gun. It is kind of annoying though. I often carry in the store. Now I have to be really careful that I am not detected.

That would be the concealed part of 'concealed carry.' Worst that can happen is you are guilty of trespassing if you don't leave after printing for all the world to see.

#7410

Gumby wrote: ↑
Bhurzum wrote: ↑
John D wrote: ↑The definition of autism is just this sort of vague list of personality traits. Kind of a useless word now.
It's only a matter of time until it's a sexuality.

https://c.tenor.com/5JUtgd1OxJcAAAAM/do ... ndrome.gif
nice Prince Harry gif!

#7411

Most of the time-- when some Generation Z nerd gets-excited about his home 3D printer-- I feel a little embarrassed for him.

I assume he's over-relying on his computerized contraption... to compensate for not-knowing how to do basic woodworking, metalwork, plastic, casting.

But the 3D gun nerds are developing iteration after iteration of their prototypes, with informal user testing & feedback, getting sophisticated results.

#7412

Bhurzum wrote: ↑ https://c.tenor.com/5JUtgd1OxJcAAAAM/do ... ndrome.gif

Pitchguest wrote: ↑

#7413

Gumby wrote: ↑ PZ's wet dream is a reality:

https://www.foxnews.com/us/minnesota-ci ... f919e6e029

Crazier than shithouse rats, though there's a lot more of that goin' round these days:

From The Blank Slate, by Steven Pinker
Jun. 6th, 2005 at 5:36 PM

As a young teenager in proudly peaceable Canada during the romantic 1960s, I was a true believer in Bakunin's anarchism. I laughed off my parents' argument that if the government ever laid down its arms all hell would break loose. Our competing predictions were put to the test at 8:00 A.M. on October 17, 1969, when the Montreal police went on strike. By 11:20 A.M. the first bank was robbed. By noon most downtown stores had closed because of looting. Within a few more hours, taxi drivers burned down the garage of a limousine service that competed with them for airport customers, a rooftop sniper killed a provincial police officer, rioters broke into several hotels and restaurants, and a doctor slew a burglar in his suburban home. By the end of the day, six banks had been robbed, a hundred shops had been looted, twelve fires had been set, forty carloads of storefront glass had been broken, and three million dollars in property damage had been inflicted, before city authorities had to call in the army and, of course, the Mounties to restore order.

https://iainuki.livejournal.com/77686.html

#7414

Service Dog wrote: ↑
John D wrote: ↑ an engineer in a non-engineer environment
https://youtu.be/t50MFchtg5E

If "engineer" is a spectrum, then feminist Naomi Wolf is somewhere on the opposite end.

The "conspiracy theory end" ;-)

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Service Dog wrote: ↑She's batty, emotive, anxious. (Not compared to other feminists!!... but, still, she's out-past the fulcrum.)

She's also Intelligent... just... not in an orderly engineering way.

Here: she makes the case-- that Pfizer is a subsidiary of the Chinese Communist Party, and we Paid Them to Inject Us with Poison.

https://naomiwolf.substack.com/p/facing-the-beast

I see from that Substack post of hers that she calls herself a "Dr." - technically correct though only a "Doctor of Philosophy":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_Wolf

Rather doubt that gives her any extra credibility in weighing-in on Covid or vaccines in general; I see that "her Twitter account was suspended for posting anti-vaccine misinformation".

But since all of the cool kids are now hanging out a shingle on that Substack platform, I've decided to do likewise; my opening salvo - which, in part, addresses the transgender issue ... ;-)

https://humanuseofhumanbeings.substack.com/p/welcome

Of particular note is my (well-supported) argument that gender is a multidimensional spectrum:

But the foregoing emphasizes that anyone can be more masculine on some traits, on some axes of that multi-dimensional gender spectrum, while being more feminine on other traits. For example, a person, of either sex, who is very agreeable and 6 ft. 1 in. tall (185. cm) is therefore hyper-feminine AND hyper-masculine, although on entirely different axes. So a great deal of justification to argue that gender is in fact a spectrum, but it’s a seriously problematic misperception to suggest that it’s only one-dimensional.

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The foregoing has been a paid political announcement; we now return you to our regular scheduled programming ;-)

#7415

Steersman wrote: ↑ Steven Pinker "As a young teenager in proudly peaceable Canada during the romantic 1960s, I was a true believer in Bakunin's anarchism."

Wow. First of all-- Bakunin-ism was a profoundly weird ideology. So it's odd to cite a peculiar incident-- as the proof that Bakunin was wrong.

That's like saying "I didn't believe in gravity, until I saw the people falling from buildings on 9/11 !"

But, also, Pinker leaves-out the context: an ongoing separatist/terrorist/civil war/coup-attempt/conflict.

It's not-like... one peaceful day in a calm place... all the cops unexpectedly got food poisoning/ & the town was The Purge before sundown.

The "six bank robberies" were performed by ONE organized gang of political radicals, executing a premeditated plan. (And the banks _expected_ to be robbed that day).

I guess Pinker is one of those super-dumb smart guys, like Sam Harris.

#7416

Birth rate down dramatically in Germany:

https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/new-d ... births-and

#7417

Service Dog wrote: ↑
Steersman wrote: ↑ Steven Pinker "As a young teenager in proudly peaceable Canada during the romantic 1960s, I was a true believer in Bakunin's anarchism."
Wow. First of all-- Bakunin-ism was a profoundly weird ideology. So it's odd to cite a peculiar incident-- as the proof that Bakunin was wrong.

Ha I thought you all were talking about Bokononism.

#7418

Service Dog wrote: ↑
Steersman wrote: ↑ Steven Pinker "As a young teenager in proudly peaceable Canada during the romantic 1960s, I was a true believer in Bakunin's anarchism."
Wow. First of all-- Bakunin-ism was a profoundly weird ideology. So it's odd to cite a peculiar incident-- as the proof that Bakunin was wrong.

So you're saying that Bakunin was right? ... ;-)

How do you think that's working out there in New York City? ... :roll:

Service Dog wrote: ↑
<snip>
But, also, Pinker leaves-out the context: an ongoing separatist/terrorist/civil war/coup-attempt/conflict.

It's not-like... one peaceful day in a calm place... all the cops unexpectedly got food poisoning/ & the town was The Purge before sundown.

The "six bank robberies" were performed by ONE organized gang of political radicals, executing a premeditated plan. (And the banks _expected_ to be robbed that day).

I guess Pinker is one of those super-dumb smart guys, like Sam Harris.

You probably have something of a point there about the "separatist ... conflict".

Though I'd be interested to see your evidence for that "ONE organized gang" ... you have any? ...

#7419

Matt Cavanaugh wrote: ↑
Service Dog wrote: ↑
Steersman wrote: ↑ Steven Pinker "As a young teenager in proudly peaceable Canada during the romantic 1960s, I was a true believer in Bakunin's anarchism."
Wow. First of all-- Bakunin-ism was a profoundly weird ideology. So it's odd to cite a peculiar incident-- as the proof that Bakunin was wrong.
Ha I thought you all were talking about Bokononism.

:-) Expect I read Cat's Cradle years ago but probably worth a re-read as I certainly don't remember that section:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat%27s_Cradle#Bokononism

#7420

Eine von 5000 Personen ist von einer schweren Nebenwirkung nach einer COVID19-#Impfung betroffen.

#7421

If "engineer" is a spectrum, then feminist Naomi Wolf is somewhere on the opposite end.

Steersman wrote: ↑ The "conspiracy theory end"

That was literally my point, dumbass.

#7422

Steersman wrote: ↑ Though I'd be interested to see your evidence for that "ONE organized gang" ... you have any? ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray-Hi ... #Citations

That day was not a vacuum of policing. 800 outside police were imported to maintain order:

"The provincial government posted 400 officers from the Sûreté du Québec to Montreal in the morning, and Quebec Premier Jean-Jacques Bertrand called an emergency session of the National Assembly to pass a back-to-work law.[15] By the end of the day, the government had been forced to send another 400 Sûreté du Québec officers to Montreal to impose order.[15]"

"In the first six months of 1969, there were 93 bank robberies in Montreal, compared to 48 bank robberies in the first six months of 1968.[5] "

"In the first six months of 1969, there were 93 bank robberies in Montreal, compared to 48 bank robberies in the first six months of 1968.[5] In January and February 1969, the FLQ staged 10 terrorist bombings in Montreal. Between August 1968 and February 1969, there were 75 bombings linked to the FLQ.[5] In February 1969, the FLQ set off bombs at the Montreal Stock Market (injuring 28 people) and at the offices of the Queen's Printer in Montreal.[5] March 1969 saw the outbreak of violent demonstrations by French-Canadians, who demanded for McGill University, a traditional bastion of Montreal's English-speaking elite, to be transformed into a French-language university. That led to counterdemonstrations by English-Canadians to keep McGill an English-language university.[4] The leader of the protests was ironically a part-time Marxist political science lecturer from Ontario, named Stanley Gray, who could barely speak French but declared that McGill must become a French-language university to end "Anglo-elitism" and rallied support from the Quebec separatist movement.[11] Over two weeks of clashes and protests, McGill was reduced to chaos as Quebec separatists stormed into the meetings of the McGill's Senate and administration chanting such slogans as "Révolution! Vive le Québec socialiste! Vive le Québec libre!".[11] The climax of the Opération McGill français protests occurred on the evening of 28 March 1969, when a 9,000-strong group of Quebec separatists, led by Gray, tried to storm McGill and clashed with the police officers, who had been asked by McGill to keep Gray's group off the campus.[11] In September 1969, rioting broke out in the suburb of Saint-Léonard between Italian-Canadians and French-Canadians over the language issue.[4] Italian immigrant parents had kept their children from school to protest the fact that the language of school instruction was now French, instead of English, and on 10 September 1969, a group of 1,500 French-Canadian nationalists attempted to march through the suburb's Little Italy district to protest the school boycott.[12] Upon their arrival, the marchers were attacked by the Italians, which led to a night of violence on the streets.[13]

In the first week of October 1969, the arbitration committee, appointed by the city, ruled that the police would receive a pay increase of $1,180, which led to the police going on an illegal "wildcat" strike.[4]"

"As the police were on strike, a crowd of disgruntled taxi drivers belonging to the MLQ appeared outside of the City Hall at about 6 p.m. supported the police strike, and carried banners denouncing Drapeau as being corrupt.[3][15] After the rally, the taxi drivers formed a convoy, which was escorted by the Popeyes Motorcycle Club, the most violent of Montreal's many outlaw biker clubs.[10] Joining the convoy were journalists and members of the FLQ carrying banners demanding independence for Quebec.[10] On the street, the convoy encountered a Murray-Hill limousine, which was forced to stop.[10] The passengers and the driver were allowed to leave, and the car was then smashed to pieces by the taxi drivers and the Popeyes.[10]

The taxi drivers, the Popeyes, and the FLQ congregated around the Murray-Hill garage in Griffintown to protest Murray-Hill's monopoly at the Dorval Airport.[3] Attempts by the Sûreté du Québec to stop the procession towards the garage were stopped by striking Montreal policemen. Many of the taxi drivers were armed with Molotov cocktails and were intent upon burning down the Murray-Hill company's garage.[16] At the Murray-Hill headquarters, young people began to throw rocks and bricks through the windows and then threw Molotov cocktails.[17] A sniper opened fire, which led one demonstrator to return fire.[3] The Murray-Hill security guards were armed with 12-gauge shotguns and left several people seriously injured.[18] One young man drove a Murray-Hill cab into a row of five limousines and three buses.[18] The eight officers from the Sûreté du Québec were surrounded by the taxi drivers and, as a journalist from La Presse wrote, "were shouted down, roughed up, had their caps thrown into the air, and their badges ripped off."[18] Sûreté Corporal Robert Dumas was killed by shots fired from the roof by security guards and the owner's son.[19] Buses were overturned and burned.[3] As the situation at the Murray-Hill garage escalated, the bulk of the Sûreté du Québec officers in the city were ordered to go there, which left the rest of the city exposed.[18]

Crowds began to smash windows and loot stores.[3] In particular, the crowds targeted a high-end restaurant owned by Drapeau, La Vaisseau d'Or, which was thoroughly trashed and looted.[3] Also targeted were pick-up points owned by the Murray-Hill company, McGill University, and the Montreal offices of IBM.[3] Gangs of masked men, armed with guns, began systematically robbing the banks, but most bankers had made certain the day before that there was only a minimal amount of cash on hand and so limited their losses.[15] One branch of the Banque d'Épargne that failed to do so lost $28,845, as three masked men smashed their way in.[15]"

#7423

Matt Cavanaugh wrote: ↑
Eine von 5000 Personen ist von einer schweren Nebenwirkung nach einer COVID19-#Impfung betroffen.
https://twitter.com/BMG_Bund/status/154 ... ections%2F

Federal Ministry of Health
@BMG_Bund
One in 5000 people is affected by a serious side effect after a COVID19 vaccination . If you suspect #side effects , get medical help and report your symptoms to us
@PEI_Germany

A fairly credible source by the look of it.

But let me know when you or they have some figures on how that 1 in 5000 is substantially worse than that for all of the other vaccines being used:

https://www.hrsa.gov/sites/default/file ... ffects.pdf

#7424

#7425

Service Dog wrote: ↑ If "engineer" is a spectrum, then feminist Naomi Wolf is somewhere on the opposite end.
Steersman wrote: ↑ The "conspiracy theory end"
That was literally my point, dumbass.

:roll: Given your predilection for covid conspiracy theories, your tendency to cut from whole cloth, that "conspiracy theory end" - with the winky at the end of it - was MY point - dumbass ...

#7426

Pinker and Harris are indeed super smart dumb guys.

I have read several books by both of them. They have some interesting insights. They can also be dumb as bricks. They are both too dumb to understand the current populist political movements... still somehow clinging to the idea that people are deceived into doing thing that are not in "their own best interest." Haha.

Harris just had some idiot on today who says the world will come to an end because populists are rejecting globalism. Dood thinks globalism is the only thing that can "save" us... like there are not a bunch of complex market forces at work. I couldn't even make it through 15 minutes. Complete shit.

I loved Pinker's "Better Nature". A really interesting study... but... he has delivered nothing of value since. He is trapped in his assumptions and his jew fro hair.

#7427

Steers is autistic.

#7428

John D wrote: ↑Steers is autistic.

:-) ;-)

#7429

Lsuoma wrote: ↑ My prediction for 2024? Trump vs. Clinton.

Dick Morris agrees.

As I explain in “The Return,” the Democrats look at everything through a prism that sees a monster all the time, his name is Donald Trump.

They fear Trump – and believe they must stop him at all costs.

So here’s what will happen:

1.) Biden will resist but ultimately have to cave to left-wing and media pressure and not run again.
2.) The Democrats also know Kamala Harris is also a disaster and cannot be their candidate. Trump will easily defeat her.
3.) The Democrats, increasingly desperate, will search for a candidate who can both unite the party and stop Trump. They are looking at people like Calif. Gov. Gavin Newsom, Colorado Governor Jared Polis, and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg.
4.) With Harris out, a Black candidate may emerge. The short list here includes Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., or, if she wins the Georgia governorship, Stacy Abrams.
5.) The far left “progressive” wing of the party will look to Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, or Alexandria Ocasio Cortez. AOC is the one who will take off, and she will wreak havoc. The left now dominates the Democratic Party. She will do surprisingly well.
6.) As leftist candidates emerge as front-runners in the Democratic primary, pressure will grow on Hillary Clinton to enter the race. Much like Biden’s surprise entrance in 2020, Democrats will see her as their savior, an experienced politician able to bridge the left and more moderate wings of the party.

https://www.newsmax.com/politics/hillar ... d/1079431/

#7430

John D wrote: ↑ Pinker and Harris are indeed super smart dumb guys.

Naomi Wolf is an obviously-smart crazy chick.

If there's such a thing as hypo-autism, she has it. Like, the opposite of a robot who misses social-cues.

She's a car-passenger who sees the traffic light turn yellow-- half a mile ahead-- who yelps "WATCH OUT!"

Unfortunately, our society rolls-along-- down deep ruts in the road-- so her premature warnings go unheeded, until she's proved correct.

For example, she has been warning feminists for years-- that they were overplaying their hand on abortion.

So recently she got to write an I Told You So, telling feminists to Look in the mIrror-- to see why they lost Roe:
https://naomiwolf.substack.com/p/on-los ... um=reader2

And her China/Vax 'conspiracy' link I posted above-- is both inspired & impossible to 'prove in court'. Until It's Too Late.

#7431

Lsuoma wrote: ↑
Stankeye wrote: ↑
Lsuoma wrote: ↑
Matt Cavanaugh wrote: ↑ https://rumble.com/v1bokjb-new-seattle- ... CdETDOVCfU
"Seattle - the Hunter Biden of Cities."

This ^^^.
Good thing there is a ferry ride between us and them.
Hmmm. Are you on Whidbey too?

Yeah..just in the summer though.

#7432

Matt Cavanaugh wrote: ↑ Ha I thought you all were talking about Bokononism.

Might-as-well-have-been. It occurs to me-- that Pinker name-dropped Bakunin in exactly the same way a precocious high school boy parrots something Vonnegut said.

I mistakenly interpreted-that as Pinker describing-himself as a chapter&verse marxist, burying himself in dense texts, splitting hairs between Bakunin and Bukharin; vowing to carry-on Bakunin's utopian project.

But, naw. Pinker just means that he vaguely believed-in 'nice guy' 'noble savage' anarchy/socialism... as callow as a MEAN PEOPLE SUCK bumper sticker.

#7433

.

Biden flatly declares he has cancer.

His handlers scramble & back-pedal, saying he merely _had_ skin-cancer, past tense. And THAT is what he was referring to.

Their damage-control is a lie.

Joe was actually talking about his asthma & blurted-out 'cancer' instead.

#7434

Following his Middle East trip, Joe spent four days at the compound in Brandon Falls, DE, with zero activities on his schedule. Since the hat-in-hand to the Saudis was bound to fail, why did Joe's handlers even send him? Starting to wonder if they aren't trying to drive him into the grave.

It'd really be the cleanest way out of the mess they've made.

Oh, and Tucker Carlson is repeating every night that Joe was fed drugs before debates and campaign stops in 2020. Just daring them to deny it.

#7435

.

Tucker has been pushing the envelope-- making a more-alarmist case than usual Fox News stuff.

He's overlapping-- like one of those Venn Diagrams-- remember those? Haaahahahahahhhahha With the 3 circles? ...Overlapping with Naomi Wolf's narratives.

Also-- it seems like he's more long-form than most teevee news... but actually, he's probably just returning to segment-lengths which were normal in the days of 20/20, Nightline, 60 Minutes.

I can imagine Trump selecting Tucker to run as VP.

Also, for some reason--- can't put my finger on it-- I felt this impersonation of Biden pushed beyond norms:
https://youtu.be/j_Z8k1IAwgY?t=494

#7436

Ban the police!

People can look after their own security interests better rather than expecting (or hoping) that the nanny state will do it for them.

#7437

What in the actual fuck?

#7438

MarcusAu wrote: ↑
Wed Jul 20, 2022 9:57 pm
People can look after their own security interests better

I wake up. GF checks her crime app. She mutters, "It's too early for all this."

The "three men robbed" was "with a gun".

"They always 'respond'", she says, "They never catch anybody."

#7439

Bhurzum wrote: ↑ What in the actual fuck?
[ballet]

I post here daily-- on topics which I have no qualifications to opine.

Then I see this ballet story popping-up. And I'm a genuine expert on the topic. Yet I didn't click-on any of the headlines.

The basic concern is legitimate: proficiency in classical-ballet is NOT a good measuring-tool, to locate dance-students with the most potential.

The world is overflowing with kids who excel in break-dancing, vogueing, pop-music cheerleader/back-up dancer style, belly dance, capoeira... parkour, skateboarding, physical comedy, stuntman-kids from Jackie Chan's school...

Ballet is A fine qualifier to dance-school. But it shouldn't be THE qualifier. Heck, it should probably count -more- than half the stuff I listed above.

Heck, I didn't even mention Modern Dance, which already sorted all-this out... starting around 1922. Modern dance was an American movement. And-- for a lifetime-- the Euros couldn't figure-out how to do it at our level. The US was like John Travolta... and the best the Euros could do was... Borat.

So the Euros had to decide whether to stick to their old-fashioned ballet guns, or submit to American cultural dominance. The did both, which was fine. And they made awful Borat performance-art, too, which was also fine... because dance ain't-exactly Air Traffic Control or Curing Cancer.

Unfortunately, the story doesn't stop there. For the last decade-or-more... in Europe... conceptual/political "art" statements have been displacing talent-based or training-based or historical-legacy-based dance. Which is like Bjarte Foshaug comics replacing everything from oil painting-- to music videos. The 'audience' for this dance is progressive-government grant applications... and unreadable post-modern graduate school dissertaions.

And, of course, this specific news story about this specific school... features a tranny as the head of the dance department, and all the usual woke buzzwords 'de-colonize' 'gender' 'whiteness' etc.

So nothing they are doing... will assure that some pale Canadian farmboy hockey player... is recognized for his amazing pirouettes... so he is recruited to be the next Gene Kelly.

Instead, look forward to Suzy Deadlegs-- an overweight HIV-positive black lesbian ukrainian muslim in a wheelchair. Shouting Maoist slogans as she's wheeled-around the English National Opera. Don't you dare laugh at her alopecia.

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previous record-disapproval (a week ago): 56.4%
then he wobbled "up" to 55.5% disapproval, for couple days.
Alas,