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readingatwork
Jan 8, 2009

Hello Fatty!


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Condiv
May 7, 2008

Sorry to undo the effort of paying a domestic abuser $10 to own this poster, but I am going to lose my dang mind if I keep seeing multiple posters who appear to be Baloogan.

With love,
a mod


Gene Hackman Fan posted:

for some reason i can't get trump's video of obama (undoubtedly) acting like a huge rear end in a top hat. would anyone have another link to/transcript of that speech?

it's basically a bunch of dems (hillary, pelosi, obama) saying that immigration is broken and immigrants have to be dealt with (as in punished)

he basically snipped together a bunch of them being lovely on immigration and says "i'm fixing it now!". to which most dem loyalists can only weakly bleat "no!! we just wanted 1-2 years of detention in filthy cages, not indefinite detention! you're such a monster trump!!"

Willie Tomg
Feb 2, 2006
thank goodness, a way to show nazis how :decorum: we are in person.

https://twitter.com/ABC7MichelleM/status/1009562633232637952

Rand alPaul
Feb 3, 2010

by Nyc_Tattoo

Willie Tomg posted:

thank goodness, a way to show nazis how :decorum: we are in person.

https://twitter.com/ABC7MichelleM/status/1009562633232637952

Excuse me, sir, I disagree vehemently with your proposal but will defend your right to state it publicly, sir.

Condiv
May 7, 2008

Sorry to undo the effort of paying a domestic abuser $10 to own this poster, but I am going to lose my dang mind if I keep seeing multiple posters who appear to be Baloogan.

With love,
a mod


Willie Tomg posted:

thank goodness, a way to show nazis how :decorum: we are in person.

https://twitter.com/ABC7MichelleM/status/1009562633232637952

i found an artist rendering of this rally

Gene Hackman Fan
Dec 27, 2002

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
https://twitter.com/SwiftOnSecurity/status/1009588494229032966?s=19

spacetoaster
Feb 10, 2014

etalian posted:

lmao

Remember when Hillary yelled Bernie in the Florida debate how child refugees should be deported because it creates a necessary warning to others?

You can't claim the moral high ground if you are living in a sewer

OMG. Find this if you can.

*ed8it*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqgTFA1HnUM&t=2144s

spacetoaster has issued a correction as of 01:39 on Jun 21, 2018

theCalamity
Oct 23, 2010

Cry Havoc and let slip the Hogs of War

quote:

Are you tired of being asked about feminism in porn? That is my meta way of asking you about feminism in porn, I guess.

I am so tired of being asked about feminism in porn! I can’t believe that I am taking the giant career risk of saying to Tracy Clark-Flory, no less, at Jezebel, that I am tired of this. But it’s the truth! And I am a risk-taker.

Oh, yes, surely that’s a huge career risk [laughing].

No, it really is. So there’s two things. One, I increasingly believe there can be no real feminism under capitalism. Like, we can do all the information-sharing and protecting each other and covering each other’s backs and solidarity over women’s issues—like the issues that women regularly encounter, things like that. But as long as capitalism exists in the form that it currently does, these structural problems that cause women trouble are not going to go away.

I would point you to the Serbian rapper, Mimi Mercedez, she’s my favorite authority on that subject—coming from a society that didn’t have capitalism the way that we do in America, I think gives her a very interesting perspective. But it’s basically, like, women get paid less than men, generally speaking on average, and when you dig behind that, it boils down to, well, we’ve got this system that treats people as dollar-generating machines instead of humans. And then, okay, we’ve got some weird patriarchal ideas about men being more productive or something—but, like, is it really a win for women, if we prove that we can be just as productive to the detriment of health and our social bonds as a man can? That just all totally strikes me as the wrong direction.

Feminism has always been “we need feminism to correct for patriarchy,” and increasingly I feel like, actually, we just need to treat each other as individual humans. Feminism can sometimes be excluding to trans people, to male allies, to sex workers, to women of color. Having looked into all that history and being aware of it, and being also aware of the times that I’ve been thinking too much about women and neglected to think about another group, it doesn’t really work so hot for me anymore.

I’ve always tried to be very clear about my work not being feminist. The only thing that can be remotely considered feminist is, like, a woman going to work, being paid a decent wage, and having a life under capitalism. But anything other than that is a bit of a stretch, and also a disservice to the actual feminist pornographers. There is definitely a lot of focus in my work on the state of sex work, and the history of it, and there’s aiming towards human connection and an accurate portrayal of human sexuality, but its not feminist.

So for multiple reasons, the feminism-in-porn thing, I’m over it. I’m over it, and I would like to point you to a list of women who are not over it at all, and are actively thinking about it and are doing actively feminist things. I’d add Ovidie, Candida Royalle, if you wanna go back in time a little bit—and Madison Young is another one. Erika Lust’s company is a great hub to find feminist stuff, or stuff that fits with feminist values.

So you’re over it, but you value what those people are doing or have done.

I am so loving grateful that all the second wave feminists fought those battles, so I could be like, “Yeah I could try to be a doctor or lawyer, but I’m gonna do this thing that’s interesting to me.” Because of the work of women like Ovidie, I’m able to just make a porno that’s about being porno, or about sex work. And that wouldn’t be possible without the work of so many feminists. Not to mention Emma Goldman is just a general badass.

http://jezebel.com/stoya-is-over-talking-about-feminist-porn-1826771529/

Phi230
Feb 2, 2016

by Fluffdaddy
Uphold Comrade Stoya

Egg Moron
Jul 21, 2003

the dreams of the delighting void


looool

that "tell your story" bullshit

Phi230
Feb 2, 2016

by Fluffdaddy

Over Easy posted:

looool

that "tell your story" bullshit

That's straight up Trump rhetoric

Thoguh
Nov 8, 2002

College Slice

https://twitter.com/dril/status/460673146451161088?lang=en

paranoid randroid
Mar 4, 2007
guys I just bought a gram of some stuff that this beardy guy at the park called Decorum and dropped it and boy am I seeing some really wild poo poo. its really consolidating the data centers of my mind

Lastgirl
Sep 7, 1997


Good Morning!
Sunday Morning!

paranoid randroid posted:

guys I just bought a gram of some stuff that this beardy guy at the park called Decorum and dropped it and boy am I seeing some really wild poo poo. its really consolidating the data centers of my mind

lol

galenanorth
May 19, 2016

Over Easy posted:

looool

that "tell your story" bullshit

http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=112719 transcript

Just before then, Clinton tried to hammer on Sanders for voting against the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2007 even though he voted for the 2013 compromise

She's in favor of due process that presumes deportation (guilt) instead of innocence

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/mar/09/bernie-s/sanders-said-clinton-backed-return-undocumented-ki/

"To be precise, she said they should be sent back if the government can identify responsible adults to care for them. She allowed that it might not be possible to send all of them to their home country."

galenanorth has issued a correction as of 02:16 on Jun 21, 2018

Ruzihm
Aug 11, 2010

Group up and push mid, proletariat!


ex post facho
Oct 25, 2007
lmbo

https://gizmodo.com/california-lawmakers-accused-of-corruption-after-guttin-1826997552/amp

quote:

Members of California’s Communications and Conveyance Committee, led by Democratic Chairman Miguel Santiago, eviscerated the text of SB 822, a bill that digital rights advocates had once labeled the “gold standard” for state-level net neutrality laws. Gutting amendments to the bill were disclosed by the committee after 10pm last night and were voted on moments after Wednesday’s hearing began with no debate.

Four Democrats and four Republicans voted in favor of the weakening amendments, which offer gaping loopholes through which internet service providers could block web traffic and excise exorbitant fees. Rather than watch his bill get mutilated, State Senator Scott Wiener attempted to withdraw SB 822 entirely.

:d2a:

Willie Tomg
Feb 2, 2006
if you don't use a vpn, anonymous DNS and at least two script blockers in 2018 i dont even know.

80% of the internet is what would've been considered malware in 2000.

Rand alPaul
Feb 3, 2010

by Nyc_Tattoo

Death to the kulak James Deen.

Phi230
Feb 2, 2016

by Fluffdaddy

Rand alPaul posted:

Death to the kulak James Deen.

if you think about it, white weed growers/sellers out in Colorado or whatever are the literal kulaks of our time

Rand alPaul
Feb 3, 2010

by Nyc_Tattoo

Phi230 posted:

if you think about it, white weed growers/sellers out in Colorado or whatever are the literal kulaks of our time

I only purchase my weed from a sovkhozy outside Magnitogorsk.

Majorian
Jul 1, 2009

Rand alPaul posted:

I only purchase my weed from a sovkhozy outside Magnitogorsk.

That poo poo's weak. The real poo poo's on the shores of Lake Karachay.

Al!
Apr 2, 2010

:coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot:

Condiv posted:

i found an artist rendering of this rally



and then they were all charged with felony assault

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy

Condiv posted:

i found an artist rendering of this rally



Gandhi was a bourgeois liberal who opposed the annihilation of caste and wanted to preserve untouchability

Barry Convex
Sep 1, 2005

Think of the good things, Pim! The good things!

Like Jesus, candy, and crackerjacks! Ice cream and cake and lots o'laffs!
Grandma, Grandpa, and Uncle Joe! Larry, Curly, and brother Moe!
as awful as we all know Neera is, it’s still amazing to see her openly endorse oligarchy

https://twitter.com/neeratanden/status/1009484199642980352?s=21

Oh Snapple!
Dec 27, 2005

Remember when Neera outed one of her employees to the rest of CAP out of sheer spite for the woman having the gall to report sexual harassment she was facing there.

I feel like we've forgotten that.

Barry Convex
Sep 1, 2005

Think of the good things, Pim! The good things!

Like Jesus, candy, and crackerjacks! Ice cream and cake and lots o'laffs!
Grandma, Grandpa, and Uncle Joe! Larry, Curly, and brother Moe!

Oh Snapple! posted:

Remember when Neera outed one of her employees to the rest of CAP out of sheer spite for the woman having the gall to report sexual harassment she was facing there.

I feel like we've forgotten that.

*Regina voice* excuse me, it was a former employee, this is slander

The Nastier Nate
May 22, 2005

All aboard the corona bus!

HONK! HONK!


Yams Fan

Barry Convex posted:

as awful as we all know Neera is, it’s still amazing to see her openly endorse oligarchy

https://twitter.com/neeratanden/status/1009484199642980352?s=21

does that go for Obama too?

Al!
Apr 2, 2010

:coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot:

Barry Convex posted:

as awful as we all know Neera is, it’s still amazing to see her openly endorse oligarchy

https://twitter.com/neeratanden/status/1009484199642980352?s=21

why neera, is he going to loosen sexual harassment laws?????

anime was right
Jun 27, 2008

death is certain
keep yr cool
the dnc owes 3 mil to the law firm that hillary used to get the piss tape but also get advice on how to attack sanders

KomradeX
Oct 29, 2011

Yinlock posted:

the media ignored it as hard as possible so you won't find much

I had a feeling this was going to be the case. Because the fact the DOJ argued that toddlers could represent themselves in court is the one instance that really sticks in my mind as truly heinously evil and when I bring it up to these people it has like no effect

Yinlock
Oct 22, 2008

KomradeX posted:

I had a feeling this was going to be the case. Because the fact the DOJ argued that toddlers could represent themselves in court is the one instance that really sticks in my mind as truly heinously evil and when I bring it up to these people it has like no effect

then stop trying to debate them and just yell at them, go pants-on-head crazy

they're decorum-lovers, they have absolutely no defense against someone with actual values

Oh Snapple!
Dec 27, 2005

They are often the kinds of folks that are called 'decorum-lovers'. No conscience, no empathy, we can talk about why they ended up that way, but first we have to bring them to heel.

Probably Magic
Oct 9, 2012

Looking cute, feeling cute.

paranoid randroid posted:

guys I just bought a gram of some stuff that this beardy guy at the park called Decorum and dropped it and boy am I seeing some really wild poo poo. its really consolidating the data centers of my mind

Wanna write a story about a designer drug named Decorum really bad now.

galenanorth
May 19, 2016


The US Senate scuttled a lot of bills passed by the House intended for addressing the Deepwater Horizon disaster, three of them unanimously or with only one vote against. They had the time, especially considering uncontroversial bills get to bypass debate and sail through quickly. They just didn't want to do anything.

H.R.5481 - To give subpoena power to the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling - passed with one vote against by Rep. Ron Paul
H.R.5503 - Securing Protections for the Injured from Limitations on Liability Act (SPILL) Act - passed by House voice vote
H.R.6016 - Audit the BP Fund Act of 2010
H.R.3534 - Consolidated Land, Energy, and Aquatic Resources Act of 2010

The last bill was a controversial bill which included many improvements, such as lifting the liability cap for under the Oil Pollution Act, which is $175 million, and extending it to include other factors like human injuries. BP essentially volunteered to pay out the $20 billion anyway for PR purposes. It narrowly passed 209-193, with 39 Blue Dog votes against. With a 59 majority, 58 actually with Ted Kennedy being a month away from dying, it probably wasn't going to pass, but that didn't stop the Democrats from trying to pass bills on other subjects. I think the reason it wasn't taken up by the Senate was so that the vote against it would stay off the record of bad actors and keep their "% of votes in favor of the environment" score higher. That motive doesn't explain the other three bills which passed unanimously, though. The Senate leadership probably just didn't want any of it passed. So they went to August recess, eight years before Chuck Schumer would applaud Mitch McConnell for not going to August recess because they need to stay in Washington and work.

The same month that bill passed, the Senate was debating a jobs bill aiming to help the 15 million Americans who have lost their jobs in the recession. The CBO estimated, over 2010-2020, it'd involve $43 billion in revenue and $127 in outlays for a net deficit increase of $84 billion over that timeframe. Of the $127 billion in outlays, $86.5 billion were for unemployment and healthcare relief, $25.6 billion were for incentives for infrastructure-related businesses, $4.7 billion were for extending existing provisions (mostly "tax relief"), and $10 billion for miscellaneous projects that are at least tangentially related to jobs by employing people with titles such as "Modification of Wool Apparel Manufacturers Trust Fund" and "Qualifying timber contract options", i.e. trickle-down through subsidization.

You'll also see the bill includes a lot of items that are unrelated to jobs under the part labeled Title IV, because under PAYGO rules bills have to at least partially pay for themselves. That's what connects it to the Deepwater Horizon response, because aside from this section "altering various rules that corporations use to calculate their foreign tax credits and foreign-source income", this part of the bill included an increase in the amount that oil companies are expected to pay into an Oil Liability Fund as insurance against the possibility a large enough to take down the liable company occurs, leaving the U.S. government to clean up the mess or bail out an oil company. Sen. Bernie Sanders introduced an amendment to the jobs bill to close big oil company tax loopholes and use the $2 billion to invest in the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant Program, the only oil-related change introduced in the Senate that entire year. It was voted down 35-61 despite the Democrats having a 58 majority, not including Sen. Kennedy, who died a month later.

Anyway, after all that work, the jobs bill looked like it was going to fail to pass, and rather than vote on it they retreated toward substituting "H.R. 4213, the American Jobs and Closing Tax Loopholes Act of 2010" with "H.R. 4213, theUnemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2010", a 3 month extension of unemployment. I brought this up before, but I didn't dig as deep into the jobs bill connection and I thought I'd post it here as long as I was researching.

galenanorth has issued a correction as of 05:03 on Jun 21, 2018

Wraith of J.O.I.
Jan 25, 2012


hopefully the rude matt is back again soon

https://twitter.com/rtraister/status/1009645404894453760?s=21
https://twitter.com/mattbruenig/status/1009647263424090113?s=21

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy

Probably Magic posted:

Wanna write a story about a designer drug named Decorum really bad now.

spacetoaster
Feb 10, 2014

Corky Romanovsky
Oct 1, 2006

Soiled Meat

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Bear Retrieval Unit
Nov 5, 2009

Mudslide Experiment

paranoid randroid posted:

guys I just bought a gram of some stuff that this beardy guy at the park called Decorum and dropped it and boy am I seeing some really wild poo poo. its really consolidating the data centers of my mind

do not, my friend, become addicted to decorum. it will take hold of you, and you will resent its absent.

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