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... and Doc is of course happily eating his own vomit...Strangelove wrote:.
I’m sick as a dog but from where I sit…
Per is alternating between shitting on the carpet and chasing his tail.
Mondi is alternating between sniffing Damon’s butt and humping his leg.
UK is busy licking his own nether region in the corner.
US is still a colony?Per wrote:Intriguing prospect...
http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/inte ... 0131121313
... but she may not get the chance to...
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/171928
Well you know ole Per with his propensity for for fake news and all that rot.Topper wrote:US is still a colony?Per wrote:Intriguing prospect...
http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/inte ... 0131121313
... but she may not get the chance to...
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/171928
I'll think about that, but first let me have a cup of tea.
Sure, The Daily Mash and The Onion are definitely what should be called fake news.Strangelove wrote: Well you know ole Per with his propensity for for fake news and all that rot.
I thought they were hiding on the moon...Strangelove wrote:Meanwhile at the Nazi-controlled Fountain of Youth at a secret base in Antarctica...
"You are the bad guy if your words trigger me into a violent rage"Topper wrote:LOL
http://news.nationalpost.com/full-comme ... annopoulos
I thought Trigger was a horse, not just a part of it's anatomy.
I hold that whatever debates may be underway about the targets of Orwell’s dystopian Nineteen Eighty-Four, the modern university is the only institution that has taken that noble work for use as a manual.
For where else are words turned quite upside down, flipped over to stand on their bruised heads and told to dance to the rigorous tunes of fanatics? For it is only on a university campus that simple, basic words are made by violence to take on their exact and opposite meanings: up is down, right is wrong, day is night, and anti-fascism is fascism.
Now what do we call it when people in black uniforms and face masks storm a speaking venue, assault attendees, light fires and throw bricks at police with the express purpose of shutting down a speech? Would “fascist” work for you? In this context, and remembering it is a university campus where this outrage was perpetrated, I think fascist will serve quite nicely. And then we may advance to giving the name of the group that sponsored this giddy fit of intolerance and mayhem. They call themselves “AntiFa” which is the cute way campus blackshirts like to spell anti-fascist these days.
… between the well-coiffed, mild-mannered Yiannopoulos and a mob of black-clad mask-wearing brick-tossing rioters, I’d go with nominating the latter as the fascist crowd.
Righteousness staggers the angry mind. The rioters presented the “argument” that Yiannopoulos’s (aborted) talk was an act of violence, while ever so superciliously they maintained that their acts of violence were free speech. One pureblood nitwit at the event whined that it wasn’t Milo’s talk, per se, that triggered her, but that she feared that in some future class she might unwittingly be sitting next to someone who had attended it. (Does Berkeley have an entrance exam? Does it require baying at the moon?)
More and more those who are, as it were, genetically opposed to the results of the presidential election, make the assumption that the Republican victory handed them a licence to violate all the codes of civil society and the understandings of democratic practice. That because their fellow citizens make a choice they find unpalatable they are thereby released to riot and violence and plaster their actions as heroic and noble. And of course the cringing authorities of the universities, instead of clarion denunciations of such actions, and absolute dissociation from all such charades, dance mildly down some imagined middle. Milo is a “provocateur” or he is “extreme” right wing, or that most feeble of all standbys, claiming the protest was “infiltrated” by “outsiders.”
The moral courage of some universities is at a low low ebb and their long and ancient reputation as havens of thought and intellectual regard is being travestied. There is only one real protest I would really like to see on a university campus these days: one that marched for more rigorous courses and more time in the libraries, reading. Meantime, I expect we’ll see a run on Mussolini bios.
You are mistaking my intent. Today a Fed Judge overturned the ban and this is what is going to keep happening to his ideas. To be president you must give the appearance of being a team player. He does not. I doubt he makes it through his first term. Of course that will leave us with a true believer in Pence but time is going to take this down.Mondi wrote:Yep, the "see what happens" approach to autocracy has always worked out well. Anyone who has studied a modicum of history will see the signs emanating from the Big Baby, and know they are concerning. But, yes let us wait and see. I think today the Big Baby mentioned sending the Armed Forced into Mexico, what's next?damonberryman wrote:Have not been on this thread for months. As I read today it occurs to me nothing has changed. All the usual suspects taking the same position. I heard Bill Nye say the other day that all the conflict going on over Trump is happening in two separate bubbles with neither side hearing the other. I think he is right.
I will acknowledge one thing I admire Trump for doing and that is doing what he said he would do. The events since he took office should not surprise anyone. The only real surprise is he followed through, for better or worse. Time will tell. He was legally elected so the best approach for me is to stay out of the two bubbles and see what happens. This i not a time for passionate intensity in support of or against the subject. It is a time to keep an open mind and wait for events to play out.
Doc.... get some fresh air...Strangelove wrote:
Nazi!Cornuck wrote: Doc.... get some fresh air...
No, a judge in idealistically democratic Seattle gave a temporary injunction to the ban while he decides to rule on it it infringes State rights.damonberryman wrote:Today a Fed Judge overturned the ban and this is what is going to keep happening to his ideas.
