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Of course it was fair, dude's trying to kill his parents. He's over 18, they have no obligation at all to support his dumb ass anymore.

Hopefully the brother changes the locks.

SunWuKung420 posted...

Dude was unnecessarily doxxed in that article.

He's a health risk to any who come into contact with him. And is going to make absolutely zero effort to isolate or protect others from himself.
Fair, next.

Jen0125 posted...

What

You had a topic before about picking up your BF from a packed bar the first night it reopened after the pandemic, didn't you?
Just thought you could provide some insight to the TC's question.

:p

@Jen0125

Homer was dumb, but smart enough to actually want people who knew what the fuck they were doing to be working with him and under him, so they could do all the work and succeed and he could then claim that success as his own.

Trump isn't even that smart. He just wants sycophants who sing his praises, regardless of their merit.

BlackScythe0 posted...

Straight up I thought Kavanaugh hated the country and would do Trumps bidding so I'm fairly surprised, but they aren't objective they will side with corporations against the rights of the american people.

Kavanaugh seemed to be a disturbed individual on a personal level and quick to anger, plus just...really obsessed with drinking. But his judicial record didn't seem too bad.
Gorsuch (spelling?) was the one that concerned me w/ how he'd rule, given his past ruling where he was the lone (insane) dissenting vote in a case where a driver stuck w/ a broken down truck in the middle of winter in the upper midwest, facing like -50 degree overnight temps, left the truck to find help rather than wait there and possibly die. The company fired him, he took it to court. Every judge except Neil sided w/ the truck driver. That kind of outright heartlessness and 100% towing the line for corporations against employees was concerning. Not to mention his seat was stolen from Garland and he shouldn't even fucking be there.

How the hell is this going back to the lower courts to be battled out some more?

Trump's already lost every single legal battle across the lower courts, which led to it reaching the Supreme Court at all.

It's fucking incredible that he could actually drag this out in court so fucking long that it isn't finally over until the re-election vote has already been made. Four fucking years! Our system seems to be a bit broken.... There's checks and balances and appeals, and then there's just straight up road blocking justice.

Haven't paid much attention to it and don't plan to buy it. she sounds like a decent person and genuinely dislikes Trump, but...I'm still hesitant to give a Trump money.
They're a family of professional con men, after all. And Donald Trump has absolutely zero shame, so if one of his relatives pretending to "hate" him and writes a book full of mean things about him tricks liberals and moderates into giving his family money...I don't doubt for a second he wouldn't stoop that low.

I'm already 100% committed to voting for Biden and against Republicans in general this fall, so there's nothing in that book that's going to somehow sway me further against Trump anyway.

EvilMegas posted...

Also TC is kyuubi lol

Thanks for the heads up.

TC is now tagged as "literally Kyuubi"
Which is one of the most insulting tags a poster could get, really

PS2 > Gamecube >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Xbox

Also pro tip: When it's 3 options, you can literally list every possible combination of the 3 to truly see which console is the favorite and worst.

Zeus posted...

Now? lolwut? It's NEVER been appropriate to shoot at cops. Attacking members of law enforcement has been banned by every government that every existed and likely every government that ever will exist. The only gray area is when law enforcement fails to identify themselves, but the sign explicitly endorses violence against cops so that goes out the window.

What's pathetic is an inability to understand why advocating shooting a person's own coworkers is bad.

What's pathetic is you intentionally missing the words "protestors" and shooting "back". She wasn't advocating for people to just go murder cops. She was talking about all the innocent people that cops have fired upon.
The same side that defends owning assault weapons and massive stockpiles of guns and talks about "armed resistance" if the government ever tries to take their guns then turns around and says it's wrong to shoot at government agents (cops) that fired upon you first, because now the group in question isn't theirs.

Apparently "don't shoot at people first if you don't want them to shoot back at you" is a controversial stance now.

I can understand cops firing her for saying it's ok to shoot police, they'll always protect and serve their own above all else. But the people in this topic slamming her is rather pathetic.

Gaawa_chan posted...

Yeah, if a cop is trying to murder you, you're not allowed to fight back. But if a protestor is in the street, feel free to run them over.

Or fire tear gas at them. Or peppery spray them. Or just start beating them with clubs. Or taze them when they're already cuffed just for funsies, then justify gunning someone down from behind because he had a tazer and it's a "lethal weapon".

Doesn't seem racist at all, just stupid kids making a mock noose out of dough. Unless there's some missing piece where they were pretending the hang-ee was black or some other race, I guess.
That said...

HornedLion posted...

Thats a lot of dough too. Like an above poster said, they either A) wasted it($$$ in the toilet) or B) sold it to customers after playing with it.

This. And I really hope it was A)

Full Throttle posted...

She said on July 1st she's the Global Press Secretary representing QAnon

I doubt it's true she has a "position" with them, but anyone involved w/ QAnon is scum, and I'm glad she was stupid enough to dox herself.

Muscles posted...

People really like FDR? The dude who had Japanese internment camps? The dude who turned Jews away that were fleeing from Germany in WWII? FDR was one of the most racist presidents but is still loved somehow. I don't get how liberals can defend tearing down statues of racists, and non racists who did nothing to deserve it, like Grant, but still love FDR despite his hatred for black people, jews, and asians.

People need to remember what the U.S. as a whole was like back then. STRONGLY isolationist, didn't want to get involved in another war at all. And pretty fucking racist, and had a disturbing amount of nazi sympathizers (some things never seem to change).
FDR seemed to do as much as he could to help the allies and defeat the nazis without getting voted out of office.

BlackScythe0 posted...

People don't tend to rate Andrew Jackson too poorly, hell he's on the 5 dollar bill, and that bastard committed genocide.

$20 bill. And Jackson is the objectively worst president in history. He isn't rated too poorly, but he should be at the bottom.
The Indian Removal Act (ethnic cleansing of Native Americans, and the brutal march that killed so many on the way) and outright ignoring the Supreme Court's ruling that the Cherokee shouldn't be forced out.
Extremely brutal towards slaves even compared to others of his time (offering bonus rewards on captured escaped slaves if the captors beat/whipped them before turning them in)
Being the only president in history to be the sole or at least primary cause of a major recession due to his dissolving of the federal banks in favor of state banks run by his cronies.
Being the initiator of both the "Spoils System" where executive branch jobs are rewarded strictly to political allies and cronies rather than on merit and trying to include opposing parties and the vicious campaign mudslinging we're so accustomed to today (Adams also slung mud in return, but his attacks were typically true while as Jackson's were mostly false smears).
Speaking of lies, he claimed his victory at New Orleans helped lead to favorable peace treaty terms, even though the treaty was signed 2 weeks before the battle took place and he knew this (news was slower back then).

The only thing he was good at was killing people.

chlc3d posted...

What? what's good about further entangling the US with an ethno-nationalist state? Not to mention the IDF killed like 60 innocent palestinian protestors when this happened

It had to happen eventually. It's their capital, period. It's crazy to think they'll ever give it up. A nation chooses where its capital is, the rest of the world doesn't get to dictate somewhere else. The sooner people get the fuck over it and Jerusalem being the capital is normalized, the sooner people can move on from fighting over it.

And "innocent" protestors that were attacking Israel, you mean? I swear...if Mexico launched 1/100th of the rockets at us that Palestine lobs at Israel, the U.S. would've fucking carpet bombed the country by now. The insane, suicidal restraint people seem to expect Israel to have is crazy.

chlc3d posted...

I'm not sure why you said this. I said "again" in my post. Did you actually read it?

Yeah, I did. I listed some other examples that are still around, and the fact he thought hiring Bolton was a good idea in the first place is damning of his judgment. No one can claim who he will or won't hire in the future with absolute certainty. But based on who he's hired and who's still around, you should have ZERO faith in him actually keeping his word on not hiring more people like Bolton.

Not to mention, "learning from his mistake" just isn't something Trump does. He doubles down. He doesn't change.

chlc3d posted...

It's a useful term for when people seem unwilling to admit anything he did was okay. e.g, not wanting to hire people like John Bolton in his second term again is a good thing. Yet pointing this out makes people think I must really like Trump or something, even when I explicitly say otherwise. I think he's probably the worst president from the last 80 years besides Reagan, George W. Bush, and Richard Nixon. I would put him a notch below Bill Clinton.

Realizing that Trump is bad doesn't automatically make the quote in question bad though. It suggests a specific change for what he would do in his second term -- not hire people like John Bolton -- and that change would be an improvement. Not hiring warmongers is obviously good, so this would be an improvement over his first term. He has a rambling style of speech, but it's ludicrous to claim that the quote in question is a sign of dementia.

He already hired Bolton.
Pompeo is still there.
That lady that destroyed the evidence of our use of torture is still the CIA head.

He's still chock full of neocon war hawks and will continue to accrue them, don't let him continuously bull shit you.

And Trump has done a few good things (kill the Trans-Pacific trade agreement, move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, uh...probably a few others but damn it's hard to think of them) and in some other cases has the right goal but just goes about it fucking stupidly (most notably his jousts w/ China about trade imbalance, currency manipulation, concerns about Huawei, etc...).
But it is completely and utterly dwarfed by all the negatives.

BeerOnTap posted...

Pick one.

He wasn't even in the segment that I called hilarious, it was one their "field reporters".
Better luck next time, ok?

Can someone just update the Principal Skinner meme and replace it with him saying, "No, clearly it's Trump Derangement Syndrome" and be done with it?

Maybe that would get through to people. They think anytime someone brings up a legitimate gripe about Trump that it's just TDS, and can never because Trump actually did something bad. Well, they don't think that, they're just disingenuously trying to shut down discussion.
It's pretty much the only case of "Never Trump" that Republicans actually adhere to when push comes to shove -- Did he do something wrong? No! Never Trump ('s fault)!

Revelation34 posted...

Isn't he the idiot that said North Carolina would be nuked?

I don't know, is he?
Dude's said plenty of stupid shit and seems to have morality that'll turn on a dime the second someone's in power.
But he's been one of Trump's most ardent defenders in the Senate for years now, so it's interesting to see what his thoughts on Trump were before it was politically useful to kiss ass.

Not sure if that video will convince Republicans to abandon Trump or to turn against Graham, but either is a win to me.

Let's hear what Republican Lindsay Graham thinks about Donald Trump and Joe Biden! (unmute it)

https://i.imgur.com/oIctei0.mp4

Obama, LBJ, and Bush Sr. are the only decent ones in the whole list and still notably flawed.

What a pathetic run of leaders we've had.

Though Eisenhower and JFK both seemed pretty good and just barely missed the 10-person cutoff, so there's that.

Teddy, FDR, and James Monroe (super underrated; was so damn popular he ran unopposed for his 2nd term and one renegade elector was all that kept him from being the only guy besides Washington to have 100% of the electors) are, alongside Lincoln and Washington (of course), the best presidents.

IMO.

lihlih posted...

Ronald Reagan did more harm to this country than any other president. He started the snowball of income inequality with the dumbass "Trickle down economy" which put us in the state we are in now. Seriously, the fact that the Boomers voted him in twice just shows how stupid that generation is.

I agree with all of this, and he's also the one that begat the cancerous union of hardcore Christianity with conservative "fuck the poor" economic policy.

But I still have to vote Trump, who's embraced the absolute worst of Reagan and cranked it up to an 11, and literally is only kept from being even worse still by his own cabinet and underlings subtly disobeying, undermining, and leaking on him every chance they get.

It's nice that the stuck up Karen wants free money for nothing, but too fucking bad.

Full Throttle posted...

The NYT said Gilles said she wants half of the proceeds because they're using her to get it and said "they're using my name, they're using my face, and they're slandering me and making me look bad" and now she's planning on suing for defamation and slander

Hmm...

Lenin offered his side of the story and said "Before i could say anything she flipped me off and said i don't need a mask and she started cursing up a storm. She started calling people sheep and she left and within a few minutes came back and she asked for my name and took a photo"

Yeah, she can go fuck her herself.

PPPPLAASSUMA posted...

I love being told daily that I'm a Democrat liberal whatever just because I recognize that Trump is a gigantic piece of shit.

Actually registered as an independent. I voted for the current repub governor of my state, but i didn't vote for that evil shithead.

Yeah, it's weird being moderate when people are so polarized.
I criticize Trump for one of the plethora of horrible things about him, and I'm a "liberal".
I criticize censorship of a video game, and I'm "alt right".
Kinda surreal. I just try to remember that if the crazies on each side are both tossing vitriol at me, I'm probably correct.

What?

Usual size for a box of burgers is like 2 lb, or 8 1/4 lb burgers...
And you just store it in the freezer and use a few at a time.

Zeus posted...

All things considered, this is one of the least-terrible things that employees at a Little Caesars have made headlines over. There's a lot of really sick shit food service workers have done to pizzas and in that workplace.

Dude, it's a fucking pizza that they put a swastika on. They got fired. The end. Even something this minor and trivial, you feel the need to "play" (literally the) devil's advocate.

Is there ANY hill you won't die on just to stick up for nazis?

LinkPizza posted...

Now that I think abut it, couldnt they just home brew it the other way? Like keeping all the race differences and home-brew it put themselves...

Not only could they homebrew the racial modifiers away, it'd actually be way less work to wipe the slate clean for everyone than to add in unique differences for every race.

EvilMegas posted...

You can literally just homebrew it back it instead of whining about it lol.

Ah, the D&D 4th edition credo whenever there was a complaint!
How'd that work out for WotC?

We don't buy the game to do all the work ourselves anyway.
Thank the Great Wheel for the OGL, the best edition of D&D will always be accessible as WotC continues to destroy the modern product.

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/29358399/source-redskins-removing-name-former-owner-george-preston-marshall-ring-fame

...The Washington Redskins are removing the name of their former owner...because he was racist.
...The Washington Redskins are removing the name of their former owner...because he was racist.
...The Washington Redskins are removing the name of their former owner...because he was racist.

Good to know the grievances of some racial minorities matter, I guess?

darkknight109 posted...

Come on, man, that's a low blow even for Trump.

He only likes white and Asian autocratic dictators.

Uh...isn't Osama bin Laden Asian?
Was living in Afghanistan.
From Saudi Arabia (I think?)

Hopefully the angry backlash will undo a lot of this stupidity, but it feels more and more like it just takes a couple of dumb asses on twitter to outweigh thousands of voices for sanity.

EDIT: As a side tangent, yet another example though of why physical media is important and an all-digital future is legit worrying for how easy it is for a few major media companies that own everything to just erase things from existence on a whim.

Yes, but it should be preserved in a museum or somewhere because:

DANTE20XX posted...

History is to be remembered so it does not repeat again.

I also think leaving it there would be fine, as long as there was a plaque to go along with it, detailing how the post is there as a somber reminder of our dark past.

EDIT: Only skimmed duckbear's post at first, cause...duckbear. I guess this is being done

The number of yes votes is disturbing for a question that should be a bipartisan slam dunk.

Cause you guys keep bumping the topic, lol

He has to wait six days since the last post to get his last word in. And you meddling kids keep messing it up for him!

Wasn't there a case where the parents refused to bring their kids to the hospital and insisted it was "God's will" and had multiple of their kids die, and then finally got thrown in prison?

Seems like the right response if parents did the same w/ COVID, though in all such cases it'd be nice if protective services took the kids away before it came to that.

The Popo posted...

Cant speak for everyone, but if the popular video from FL is any indication, they think that the masks are stopping us from breathing the way god intended for us to breathe.

Not sure about them, but I still use my lungs while wearing a mask. And if theyre so concerned about using their bodies the way god intended them to, then they should use their legs instead of a car, they probably shouldnt be wearing any type of clothing, and they should refrain from any medication.

Or, more starkly and fitting for the pandemic at hand....if they think merely wearing a mask is altering the way god intended us to breathe...they should refuse the aid of a ventilator when taken to a hospital, so someone who doesn't care about how "god intended" us to breathe can use it instead.

wwinterj25 posted...

I'll take your word for it. Still a cesspool is a cesspool.

Not saying it's great. Just that being better than Twitter is an amazingly low bar to clear.

wwinterj25 posted...

Seeing all these reddit topics makes me happy I never use it. It seems worse than Twitter at this point.

Not even remotely as bad

I've always preferred Zelda games where Link is depicted in cell shading

Veedrock- posted...

Look at this guy and his 20th century dictionary. Dude probably thinks literally is defined as literally.

I forgot that this was the era of alternative facts, where words don't mean anything anymore.

My bad.

BlackScythe0 posted...

Correct and while specifically white women may not be protected Im sure women in general would be by their new rules while men and specifically white men would not.

...What? Women make up a majority of the U.S. population.
By definition, they are a "group(s) of people who are in the majority", so the rules of protection shouldn't apply to them.

I'm not saying the rules shouldn't apply to them, I'm pointing out how stupid it is to base "is it hate?" on population %, and pointing out how utterly hypocritical it will be when the rules are inevitably used against misogynist posts far more often than on misandrist posts despite men being the ones not in the majority.
It's a dumb restriction. Hate is hate.

BlackScythe0 posted...

No point in asking it means white men.

There's more white women than white men, though.

America, America! This is you!

https://youtu.be/433b5RJ9BME

Public hearing in Flori-duh (of course) on mandating indoor mask wearing.

Look at all those insecure men making idiots out of themselves!
It's actually 90% women, lol

LinkPizza posted...

If the family is fine with it, then I dont see a problem with keeping it what it is...

This.
I also don't really care either way though, since it has a racist origin.
Only real concern is the apparent "slippery slope" where now whackos think it's open season on canceling anything w/ a minority image/branding. I heard they're going after Uncle Ben now? WTF was wrong with that?
That's the real problem...even when these lunatics sort of have half a point and you're willing to concede something to them, it just encourages them to push further and further, reason be damned.

Ah man, that sucks to hear. But don't give up hope!
After years of struggling with it himself, Jon Stewart was able to cure himself of The Daily Show in 2016.