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ConfusedTorchic posted...

there are a higher intelligence amongst cats though, some of them do desire to be more than "just a cat" and seek out jobs!

some cats will go and spend time with old people in a nursing home, some cats will go to warehouses and guard them from smaller critters, while some go to war overseas to fight for their country.

And if you leave your cat indoors while you're at work, a surprising number of them will go online and use your credit card to pay for porn.

There is no such state as Montana. It's just a name they invented, in the expectation that people would believe it was a real state but would never try going there and find out it doesn't exist.

Depends where you follow it and how far down that road you're prepared to go, doesn't it?

When the stakes are as high as eternal life, what wouldn't you be prepared to do in the name of your deity?

I don't think that their nationalists should have collaborated with the Nazis by joining the Bezen Perrot militia.

ROBANN_88 posted...

Unrelated to the topic, but i hate how Nordic Runes have been essentially co-opted by the far right

I think proto-Nazi occult cranks like the Thule Society were pulling that stunt as early as 1918. Seeing as how quite a few Waffen-SS divisional emblems were designed around runic symbols, they've been neo-Nazi chic since the end of WWII. Most people don't know the political significance of a runic badge or tattoo when they see one, but I agree, the futhark being hijacked by fascists is a bit like having your country's flag stolen by them.

Yazarogi posted...

Nice story man, glad you were able to grow better as an individual!

Thanks. I married her, the girl who changed my life, and although that part of the story might not exactly have had a happy ending (we separated after three years, divorced after five), I don't regret a single moment of what happened, only for what happened before we met. Part of me will always love her for that. (That's probably not something I'd confess to wifey #2, mind you...)

My own transformation at the age of 25. I pissed the years of my wasted youth down the drain as a neo-Nazi activist. (That wasn't what we in the "political soldier" faction of the National Front liked to call ourselves; we preferred the label "Third Positionists". But we all knew what we really meant.) I also rubbed shoulders with loyalist paramilitaries in Northern Ireland and shook hands with "former" (wink) UFF and UVF men who I knew were killers.

And yet I went from that to being a campaigner in the Anti-Apartheid Movement.

So, what happened? Did I find Jesus, or something? No, fuck that. Instead, the unthinkable happened: I fell in love with a black girl at work. (Yes, even neo-Nazis have day jobs.) It was a shock like having a glass smashed in my face.

Falling in love with her wrenched my life around 180 degrees. I got educated. I dumped my shitty beliefs in the trash can where they belonged, renounced the movement, and cut off former friends and "comrades" like gangrenous limbs. I pulled up my roots and moved to a different city, because living a real-life Romeo and Juliet story in which you're a "race traitor" isn't likely to end happily. (My parents had my "old friends" knocking on their front door and asking if I'd left a forwarding address.)

The only relic I have left now from that earlier, shameful part of my life is a couple of tattoos (odalrune and wolf's hook, if you're interested). Plus the shaven head.

tankboy posted...

The one weakness of the US was a tendency to get mired in nation-building ("losing the peace")

I think the real weakness of the US was lacking both a clear understanding and policy on how to put a country back together again after having taken it apart, not that it tried to do so.

The slide of Afghanistan into chaos after the Soviets finally cut their losses and ran had consequences that sucked for thousands of Americans in September 2001. It proved that malign neglect of what seem to be reassuringly distant backwaters that rarely rate a glimpse on a TV screen can come back to bite you badly on the ass. Uncle Sam wanted the Russian bear out of Afghanistan and once that was accomplished, dusted off his hands, turned around and walked away because as far as he was concerned, that was the end of the story and what happened to the Afghans themselves afterwards didn't matter. But history decided otherwise.

Does seem unusual.

I always think you should feel a lot more embarrassed about masturbating if you do it in a crowded restaurant.

Guide posted...

I hated that person
then i became that person
I did this to my youngest cousin, who gave me the eyeroll, and I felt the Cosmic Cycle of Aging mock me from on high. "You cannot escape," It said. "There is nowhere else to go."

We are all doomed to sound like our parents in the end. Each generation passes to the other the curse of saying dumb stuff at inappropriate times like an inherited genetic defect.

Nah, I see what he's getting at: the kind of people who think you're somehow an idiot or crazy for not throwing your life or shitloads of your money into what they like, the way they do. "You're doing it all wrong! This is what you need to do..."

"Enthusiasts with large disposable incomes".

Guide posted...

>see a baby your cousin had
>later
>who is this teenager you were a fetus last week

And then there's the aunt who's always shocked at how tall you've grown since she last saw you -- when you were 8. It's as if they don't expect you to keep growing after that age.

Chicken posted...

You guys can look at all the shit going on rn and you think we arent already in WW3?

No, I think we're in a world that's suffering from a lot of violent regional and internal conflicts, but which aren't all interlocking nor driven by the same actors in the way that Cold War conflicts were, when the planet was deadlocked between two rival superpowers who fought proxy wars in Asia, Africa and the Americas that cost millions of lives.

If the worst kind of discrimination you ever practice against someone of a different race is to deprive them of the chance of having sex with you, then it's the kind that probably doesn't matter too much.

Guide posted...

The association is always the occasional colorful holiday and keeping traditions alive and that stuff, but beyond just being nice, it's useful.

Knowing a location, where it's safe, where the food and supplies are both good and cheap, the informal shibboleths that differentiate you from "outsiders" that allow for information, assistance, even favors from otherwise total strangers. Beyond locale, you might've inherited self defense practices, a widely applicable trade, a way to sustain yourself in unusual situations. Those things are held together by those seemingly arbitrary parades and obligatory events. I haven't been appreciative enough.

Those are the advantages of spending a vacation in your own country.

Foppe posted...

IBM worked 24/7 to be able to ship equipment to the Nazis before the Government could ban all sales to Germany.

The company continued to sell to Nazi Germany, and provide on-site support for its card punch machines in concentration camp offices, through its foreign subsidiaries.

It was one of those decisions that makes sense and has a certain degree of moral justification on paper. But when that piece of paper is the back of an envelope, and the decision costs tens of thousands of lives because you think that "mission accomplished" simply means successfully taking a country apart without needing to know how to put it back together again, then it's a bad decision.

CARRRNE_ASADA posted...

Right to abortion has won in some conservative states. cause overall they value more FREEDOM and SMALL GOVERNMENT.

Conservatives believe freedom is precious -- so precious, it must be rationed.

masterpug53 posted...

Yes. He's really been starting to show his age in the past few months, and there's only so much pancake makeup and spray tan can hide.

He's been taking makeup tips from morticians.

BucketCat posted...

oh yeah? then how come they sell 3D glasses in stores? are you telling me its some sort of scam??

Not only that, but if you just wait for a few more hours the sky will end up going dark anyway and you won't even need glasses to see it.

ScazarMeltex posted...

They always said they didn't want to prosecute or punish women who had abortions and then that's one of the first things they started pushing legislation on once Roe was overturned.

If a woman defended her decision to terminate by claiming she was afraid her child would be "born gay", you can only imagine how torn they would be over the question.

LeCh0nk posted...

Only through staring directly at the eclipse can we find salvation for the sins committed. If you believe Donald Trump to be The One True Saviour of humanity, stare at it this afternoon and his orange face will appear unto you.

The liberals want to sensor you by making you wear glasses! Don't listen - it's all a hoax.

Trump will pass along the helpful tip that people blinded by the sun can treat their eyes with a solution of hydrochloric acid. It's an old home remedy.

CE_gonna_CE posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/9/90e56eb3.jpg

So the eclipse will bear a terrifying similarity to Sanders' face getting bigger and bigger until it fills the sky?

If it happens during a Trump administration, Don will be prepared to let them get away with it if they only nuke blue states. In fact he'd probably encourage it.

That the afterlife is going to be a bit shit.

This particular war of Putin's might not. The next one might, if he gets what he wants in Ukraine and he makes the calculation that he can invade his neighbours with impunity -- and the western democracies have to decide how many dominoes should be allowed to topple.

Yeah, he was my best mate. It's easier to let go of someone you don't love, so losing him has been hard.

These guys' breath must absolutely stink of Trump's rancid shit after all that asslicking. It's like a quasi-religious cult with a scat fetish.

Reddit has definitely helped quite a few users get in touch with their inner idiot.

MistyKnight posted...

Where are all the conservative groomer hunters on this one

Probably pimping out their own kids as prostitutes to help fund Trump's legal battles.

Ah yes, the discovery that sharing genetic material with some people thanks to an accident of birth doesn't mean very much.

Yes. We ended up getting married a couple of years later.

I got kicked out of one job because the boss wanted to hire his idiot son without raising the staff numbers. Blood might be thicker than water, but his son was definitely thicker than shit.

I've seen half a dozen Star Wars movies. I think that's enough for one lifetime.

"Roger, at Cornell University they have an incredible piece of scientific equipment known as the tunnelling electron microscope. Now, this microscope is so powerful that by firing electrons you can actually see images of the atom: the infinitesimally minute building blocks of our universe. Roger, if I were using that microscope right now, I still wouldn't be able to locate my interest in your problem."

-- Frasier Crane.

Never too early to start training, Elon.

Dancedreamer posted...

It's because the world has gotten crazy to the point where things said sarcastically are also said without sarcasm.

I find it safer to assume that people aren't trolling, because God knows there are enough people who are genuinely that stupid and obnoxious and aren't just acting the part.

No. What an absurd notion.

It's like dropping off your kid at the school gate in the morning and when you get back home, clearing out their room because you've emotionally already written them off as having been killed in a school shooting.

I would say that if there is a ... well, OK, let's call it an "extragalactic higher intelligence" ... out there somewhere -- an hypothesis that I'm willing to accept on an intellectual level, but don't personally believe -- then we have about as much hope of comprehending it as goldfish have of comprehending the human world beyond their bowl.

Goldfish know that there are mysterious figures on the other side of the glass wall who sprinkle a handful of fish food flakes onto the surface of the water now and again... But that's about it.

But my view is that all these tribal myths and superstitions from the Bronze Age Near East (which only enjoyed such longevity because in time, they came to be backed by state power) have simply anthropomorphized complex phenomena in an attempt to make sense of natural forces beyond Bronze Age understanding. Who or what makes the sun rise and set? It's an invisible man in the sky. We should have outgrown this primitive shit by now.

Yep. These days it's for the body, used to be for the mind.

Apollo 11 Moon landing. It was broadcast on TV over and over throughout the day, and was shown in schools.

7. Three of which, combined, account for 29 years of employment. I've not included after-school evening jobs or the sales job where I walked out after two hours.

Some senior managers, sacking people to slash the wages bill is the only way they know how to manage and they think it's the only thing they need to know.

I'm still waiting to hear back from an interview in 1991.