CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK posted:

https://twitter.com/city_paper/status/902318034471329792

One of the good people on both sides

Trig Discipline posted:

Yeah I lived in Canberra and up on the Central coast and the water was great.

RatHat posted:

Nah. he's just mentioning it to get views.

https://twitter.com/notch/status/901563415096954882

Gorilla Salad posted:

The elephant in the room here is, of course, Adelaide.

It was once famously quoted as being "too thick to drink, too thin to plough."

Dodoman posted:

Wtf is pizzagate?

Senior Woodchuck posted:

To be fair, the church itself is flooded.

To be even more fair, Osteen and his family got the gently caress out of Dodge last week and are sitting pretty in another home upstate, and he's done gently caress-all but tweet inane "thoughts and prayers/God's got this" platitudes, so gently caress him regardless.

Dodoman posted:

Wtf is pizzagate?

Avenging_Mikon posted:

This is a bad idea, because lawsuits are generally the only recourse a citizen has against a corporation, and you'd usually be suing for amounts that are punitive to a company, but ruinous to an individual so you'd have a chilling effect on people with legitimate grievances who are worried about potential for a frivolousness ruling as it would destroy them.

Jerry Cotton posted:

My gullet is a pizza gate.

Murphys Law posted:

I'm not talking about legitimate complaints or disagreements that just can't be worked out outside of a courtroom. I'm talking about obvious bullshit, like that lawyer a few years ago who sued a dry cleaner for a ridiculous amount of money over nothing.

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And maybe don't make it for the same amount the plaintiff is suing for, but something that would be a comparative punitive charge for wasting everybody's time with obvious bullshit. I just think if people knew they could potentially lose money if they sued for some non-issue there'd be fewer frivolous lawsuits.

Dizz posted:

Reminder that they found some ancient underground tunnel under the pizza place and despite travering it several times, they are still in belief that there's a pedophile smuggling ring that also harvests organs despite the tunnels not showing any signs of use for decades.

Phanatic posted:

The trouble is that you're attempting to draw a distinguishing line between "legitimate complaints" and "obvious bullshit," when in reality the entity making that discrimination would be the courts. And the place courts would draw the line are probably very different from where you'd draw the line.


Truly frivolous lawsuits, ones utterly without merit, are headline-getting but are actually very rare. In the dry-cleaner case you mention, the plaintiff wound up spending a ridiculous amount of effort appealing all the way to the Supreme Court and got nowhere. In addition, the plaintiff wasn't just a lawyer, he was an administrative judge, and as a result of this case and his batshit behavior his appointment was not renewed and he effectively lost his job. And yet, he persisted, so I don't think comparative punitive charge for wasting everyone's time with obvious bullshit would have disincented him very much. He went into it with full knowledge that he stood to be out a lot of money and his job, and did it anyway. And as for the defendants, they recovered their costs through a fundraiser campaign; they'd moved to recover attorney costs and probably would have won that motion, but dropped it because they just wanted the plaintiff to shut up and leave them alone.

And if you insist on being a silly bugger and repeatedly engage in frivolous claims, you can be declared a vexatious litigant and basically lose your access to the courts.

Rough Lobster posted:

Weird conspiracy theory when the Dem's emails got leaked. Some nut noticed a bunch of references to pizza eg "Hey guys after the fundraiser tonight let's grab some pizza together" and decided that different toppings alluded to different types of pedophilia the group would engage in. Like, pizza with Italian sausage meaning let's abuse an Italian kid. Instead of figuring that they just really liked eating pizza like 90% of American adults.

e: oh and some true believer showed up at this infamous pizza joint and shot it up, demanding employees to reveal the hidden rape rooms.

steinrokkan posted:

Either he's a believer trying to roll with the punches, or he's an enabler, and happy to be the poster boy for alt-righters. Neither is a good look.

Grey Fox posted:

Voting believer. https://twitter.com/classiclib3ral/status/902032837255323648

Glazier posted:

Even if he wasn't, we need to stop drawing the line between "ironic" rasicm/sexism/conspiray (theorism?) and the actual thing.

LawfulWaffle posted:

He keeps pretending to be relevant and people keep biting, so I guess it's working.

Dizz posted:

He's just gonna ride that Gamergate/Pizzagate bandwagon until a rotten piece of candy blocks his windpipe

ekuNNN posted:

Zipperelli. posted:

Schadenfreude for people in Texas who spent tons of money on hurricane prep: Harvey has been downgraded to Cat 1, and is expected to be downgraded again here soon.

Dizz posted:

So does Hurricane harvey count as Schadenfreude? It kinda does with how many texans kept bitching about wanting a wall to keep rapist drug dealing mexicans only to be given aid from them during a natural disaster.

SpacePig posted:

I think part of it might be that Ted Cruz has criticized relief spending for Sandy, but now is openly welcoming aid from other states and the federal government now that his own state is worse off.

Dave Grool posted:

We still doing this?


https://twitter.com/capitalweather/status/902570855389052928

Trivia posted:

Can't remember which thread it was, but someone posted the "you are who you pretend to be" quote. Seems pretty apt to me.

Dizz posted:

So does Hurricane harvey count as Schadenfreude? It kinda does with how many texans kept bitching about wanting a wall to keep rapist drug dealing mexicans only to be given aid from them during a natural disaster.