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Old 07-02-2023, 09:42 PM
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That's cute, unless I am actively reading something you have written, I don't think about you at all.

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Of course not.
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Am I the last person on Earth to hear about the “Council for National Policy”?

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Am I the last person on Earth to hear about the “Council for National Policy”?

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Oh, no.
Some of my family got caught up in that bullshit back in the 80s.

I broke ranks with them, and never looked back.

They still never invite me to Christmas Dinner.
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I don't know why I posted that here instead of in the thread where I first learned about it (article linked here), but I'm chalking it up to Alzheimers.
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Old 07-07-2023, 05:13 PM
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Back in 1921, a young black man temporarily closed up his shoeshine stand in Tulsa, OK to go to the can in a nearby office building with a black-only bathroom. He tripped while entering the elevator and grabbed the white female elevator operator's arm to steady himself. The operator screamed, and naturally, a nearby (white) witness described the incident as an attempted rape.

From May 31 to June 1, armed crackers marauded through the Greenwood section of Tulsa, a black area of town with considerable wealth, as it was home to a bunch of successful black business people. The attacks, which included bombardment from planes (a full two decades before Pearl Harbor), destroyed over 1,200 homes, along with churches, schools, hospitals, and business. Reliable estimates of the death toll are difficult to come by, but range between 75 and 300.

Ryan Walters, a wingnut moron, is OK's state public school superintendent. He's fallen for (or pretended to fall for) all the wingnut outrage porn to come down the pike in recent years, including the "furries in public schools!!1 :freakout:" hysteria.

A county Republican party invited Walters to speak at a library in Norman, OK last night, and hoo wee Sweet Jesus Lawdy Lawd A-Mighty! Naturally, Walters is dead set against "critical race theory" in public schools. Someone asked him whether the Tulsa Race Massacre (which for a disconcertingly long time was called the Tulsa Race Riot, after efforts to keep the whole horrific incident under wraps finally fell apart) met Walters's definition of CRT. The obvious upshot of the question was, "If teaching that the massacre was race-based is CRT, and CRT has no place in public schools, then we can't teach about the massacre in public schools. Right?"

The answer . . . holy fucking fuckballs, the answer! +88 wingnut points for weaving "content of character" into that mess.

One of the attendees reportedly brought a recorded laugh track to the event. Yep. I can see that.
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Air Force general says 'Judeo-Christian' roots will help the U.S. military's ethical use of AI | Washington Examiner
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I may be leaping to the assumption that this guy is a conservative.
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Just wait until the install that Judeo-Christian Compass in the AI system.

THAT will be exciting.
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Old 07-28-2023, 09:13 PM
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David Vitter on line 2.
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I don't know what to do with this ...

The sick mind of Noam Chomsky | Salon.com

Someone in another place linked to it as support in an anti-Chomsky argument, and I was frankly stunned by it. Stunned and angry. Stunned because of the vehemence and the bile. Stunned because it was published in Salon ffs. Angry because malevolent sophistry always has that effect on me (though to be honest, I probably don't always spot it if the target is someone I have no regard for #confirmationbias).

But it is old (22 years) and so I decided it probably should be left to lie. But my anger didn't like that idea. So I'm a post it here.

Note: for me this is not about Chomsky—it's about David Horowitz, who is unknown to me, but I'm guessing known to some of :ff:

Is Horowitz really as vile as the author of this appears to be?
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The sick mind of Noam Chomsky | Salon.com



Is Horowitz really as vile as the author of this appears to be?
Short answer; Yes.

https://alumni.berkeley.edu/californ...david-horowitz

Chomsky's no saint. but Horowitz is still working to bring down the State, just from a whole new angle.
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This is more straightforward stupid shit.


Whittle is clearly not stupid, but what purports to explain socialism and is clearly intended as some kind of "take-down" makes no sense. Which part of the parable is supposed to analogise socialism?

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I may be leaping to the assumption that this guy is a conservative.
Will they be training the AI using the "Catholic Inquisition Starter Pack v1.0" or "Crusades 1 through 8 Training Kit"? Either way, I can't see anything possibly going wrong.

Also, was water-boarding covered under our moral compass?
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So, I'm guessing that the first Challenge in the 2024 Republican race for the White House will be the "Shoot yourself in the Foot Challenge."

Here’s the Recording of Vivek Ramaswamy Implying 9/11 Was an Inside Job
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Nowadays it's damn near impossible to tell what's True MAGA from what's RINO without a program, but I suspect "DEEP STATE DID 9/11" is exactly the sort of horseshit that appeals to the smooth-brained loons the GOP has been inviting into the "big tent" for decades.
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Another PAB-level galaxy brain stable genius:

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According to court documents, around Jan. 5, 2021, Chad Christopher Stark, 55, of Leander, posted a message to Craigslist entitled, “Georgia Patriots it’s time to kill [Official A] the Chinese agent - $10,000.” The message included the following: “It’s time to invoke our Second Amendment right it’s time to put a bullet in the treasonous Chinese [Official A]. Then we work our way down to [Official B] the local and federal corrupt judges. It’s our duty as American Patriots to put an end to the lives of these traitors and take back our country by force. . . . If we want our country back we have to exterminate these people. One good loyal Patriot deer hunter in camo and a rifle can send a very clear message to these corrupt governors.. milita up Georgia it’s time to spill blood…. we need to pay a visit to [Official C] and her family as well and put a bullet her behind the ears. Remember one thing local law enforcement the key word being local….. we will find you oathbreakers and we’re going to pay your family to visit your mom your dad your brothers and sisters your children your wife… we’re going to make examples of traitors to our country… death to you and all you communist friends.”
lol Craigslist
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I found this amusing, I just learned that in 2023 Joe Rogan moved from California to liberal Austin Texas where he purchased a $14M exclusive Tuscan style lake side estate, becoming neighbors with other liberal actors.

He then bought a building in Austin and turned it into a comedy club, the Comedy Mothership is an ADA accessible venue that bans guns, phones and heckling.

I’m just reminded so much of the crazy conservative cartoonist who lives deep in the liberal bay area, they’re happy to take angry rural conservative money but they’ll go to great lengths to not be around them.

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Ah. Another rich fucking hypocrite. Add him to the list of Congressmen. Or Congress people. Or .. oh never fucking mind.
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they’re happy to take angry rural conservative money but they’ll go to great lengths to not be around them.
In fairness, this is the completely correct approach.
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They have been paid a lot to do not too much in the last few years, and we need to see that change. We need to see unemployment rise—unemployment has to jump 40, 50 percent, in my view. We need to see pain in the economy. We need to remind people that they work for the employer, not the other way around. There’s been a systematic change where employees feel the employer is extremely lucky to have them, as opposed to the other way around. So it’s a dynamic that has to change. We’ve got to kill that attitude, and that has to come through hurting the economy, which is what the world is trying to do. … People are definitely laying people off, and we’re starting to see less arrogance in the employment market, and that has to continue.
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Dave Portnoy, Tim Gurner, Steve Huffman, and other CEOs who keep talking like Elon Musk.
I've probably watched that Gurner clip a dozen times and it just keeps. getting. funnier. every. single. time. He needs to pay more attention to the likes of Larry Summers and Jerome Powell so he can learn how to say exactly the same thing but make it sound like really smart economic policy.
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