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PostNouveau
Sep 3, 2011

VY till I die
Grimey Drawer
https://twitter.com/thenation/status/1111074690909593601

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Nebakenezzer
Sep 13, 2005

The Mote in God's Eye

Feranon posted:

almost like a full general strike is an option and would be devastatingly effective

I think this is partially why Tump folded with that pointless standoff

Basically the air traffic system working without pay was on the brink of saying 'gently caress it, we're out.' This would have grounded all US aviation: airlines, air cargo...

So it would have been an economic sector going on strike, and the moneybags basically all called up Tump and said "That will be disastrous to our operations and bottom line, gently caress that" [BTW this is not just rich-bitchin', there's a famous fact circulating out there like GM lost $800 million due to the few days North American airspace was shutdown after the WTC attack)

So yeah, and that was just one sector threatening to do so

Nebakenezzer has issued a correction as of 19:27 on Mar 28, 2019

oystertoadfish
Jun 17, 2003


I think I remember that Charlottesville guy! maybe it was a different one, but... that Nazi was trying to have a speech whining about something and a whole crowd full of rich white liberal rage just stormed him and made him run away through the flowers. I think I saw some well dressed white woman trying to tackle him, it was delightfully out of control. I was really happy that the usually lukewarm rich liberal middle aged types were enraged into breaking up a speech

and I imagine as rich white folk they were tried by a jury of their peers, and it looks like they're still mad! good for them

I'm not gonna pretend to draw any overarching lessons from this, but while we all know the main fight was won by socialists, the black community and antifa, it was cool to see the decorum crowd chasing this coward through the bushes trying to beat him up

Lutha Mahtin
Oct 10, 2010

Your brokebrain sin is absolved...go and shitpost no more!

Agean90 posted:

it reads like it wasn't even a union, they just quit and told people not to work for him

this is exactly what happened when a local restaurant owner/landlord in my area was discovered to have donated to david duke. every single person at his club quit, and every single organization who was stuck in a lease with him put out press releases the next day denouncing him and saying they would move as soon as they could. it was great

e: the fucker did re-open the place tho

Lutha Mahtin has issued a correction as of 22:35 on Mar 28, 2019

Happy Thread
Jul 10, 2005

by Fluffdaddy
Plaster Town Cop


Figure this fits in because it made me smile

Raldikuk
Apr 7, 2006

I'm bad with money and I want that meatball!

Dumb Lowtax posted:

Figure this fits in because it made me smile

I followed to this media matters post on on that same poll and lmfao... dude is melting down wondering how you can tax real estate. "you would have to have people go around determining the value of real estate! It is absurd!" he says with a straight face

Nebakenezzer
Sep 13, 2005

The Mote in God's Eye

oystertoadfish posted:

I'm not gonna pretend to draw any overarching lessons from this, but while we all know the main fight was won by socialists, the black community and antifa, it was cool to see the decorum crowd chasing this coward through the bushes trying to beat him up

The decorum crowd is really, really, small: basically MSM people and their most class-conscious readers

Happy Thread
Jul 10, 2005

by Fluffdaddy
Plaster Town Cop
A sick burn happened (not recently)




Rocks posted:

i just skipped to a part 50 minutes in and he is just completely owned

it's really good watching

uber_stoat
Jan 21, 2001



Pillbug
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyPTRvr3GGw

Ugato
Apr 9, 2009

We're not?



send help I’m dying

crazy cloud
Nov 7, 2012

by Cyrano4747
Lipstick Apathy
1h14 to 1h19 is amazing

PerilPastry
Oct 10, 2012
That Alex Jones deposition is pro-click as hell.

Also, I just learned that he's only 45 years old lmbo

Nebakenezzer
Sep 13, 2005

The Mote in God's Eye

PerilPastry posted:

That Alex Jones deposition is pro-click as hell.

Also, I just learned that he's only 45 years old lmbo

WHAT

GET OUT

Jesus

PostNouveau
Sep 3, 2011

VY till I die
Grimey Drawer

PerilPastry posted:

That Alex Jones deposition is pro-click as hell.

Also, I just learned that he's only 45 years old lmbo

wtf are those supplements made of radium?

Krispy Wafer
Jul 26, 2002

I shouted out "Free the exposed 67"
But they stood on my hair and told me I was fat

Grimey Drawer
From how red his face gets I think the supplements are mostly salt.

He doesn't look that bad for 45. But holy hell he's about to stroke out.

Chokes McGee
Aug 7, 2008

This is Urotsuki.

PostNouveau posted:

wtf are those supplements made of radium?

it wouldn’t surprise me he’s ruined the forums for 20 years plus

bring back old gbs
Feb 28, 2007

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

Chokes McGee posted:

it wouldn’t surprise me he’s ruined the forums for 20 years plus

:chanpop: :jonespop:

Zeroisanumber
Oct 23, 2010

Nap Ghost

Chokes McGee posted:

it wouldn’t surprise me he’s ruined the forums for 20 years plus

Genuine laffo

PerilPastry
Oct 10, 2012

Zeroisanumber posted:

Genuine laffo
Big time!

https://twitter.com/splinter_news/status/1112075835333324802

That Works
Jul 22, 2006

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy


Chokes McGee posted:

it wouldn’t surprise me he’s ruined the forums for 20 years plus

Hahaah

Ursine Catastrophe
Nov 9, 2009

It's a lovely morning in the void and you are a horrible lady-in-waiting.



don't ask how i know

Dinosaur Gum

PostNouveau posted:

wtf are those supplements made of radium?

far right personalities always seem to age at like 5x normal speed. Shel Silverstein said hateful thoughts make you look ugly, I guess “pure unadulterated constant rage and hate” is a force multiplier

30.5 Days
Nov 19, 2006

Ursine Catastrophe posted:

far right personalities always seem to age at like 5x normal speed. Shel Silverstein said hateful thoughts make you look ugly, I guess “pure unadulterated constant rage and hate” is a force multiplier

That's pretty offensive to those of us who are just ugly for no loving reason.

Samovar
Jun 4, 2011

When I want to relax, I read an essay by Engels. When I want something more serious, I read Corto Maltese.


Ursine Catastrophe posted:

far right personalities always seem to age at like 5x normal speed. Shel Silverstein said hateful thoughts make you look ugly, I guess “pure unadulterated constant rage and hate” is a force multiplier

So did Roald Dahl.

But then again he was an antisemite, so...

drilldo squirt
Aug 18, 2006

a beautiful, soft meat sack
Clapping Larry

30.5 Days posted:

That's pretty offensive to those of us who are just ugly for no loving reason.

I'm sorry sin causes ugliness as God's wrath is turned on you. It why all attractive people are also beloved by the lord, they are fundamentally good people. Let me show you this weird English children's book as proof.

Zeroisanumber
Oct 23, 2010

Nap Ghost

30.5 Days posted:

That's pretty offensive to those of us who are just ugly for no loving reason.

Every human being is beautiful and precious in their own way. You too deserve to be loved and respected.

Ursine Catastrophe
Nov 9, 2009

It's a lovely morning in the void and you are a horrible lady-in-waiting.



don't ask how i know

Dinosaur Gum

30.5 Days posted:

That's pretty offensive to those of us who are just ugly for no loving reason.

you're just not your own type friendo

cool dance moves
Aug 27, 2018


Samovar posted:

So did Roald Dahl.

But then again he was an antisemite, so...

Aw man he was?

I guess related good stuff: he shot down nazi planes during WWII until he was discharged due to a head injury so at least he fought fascists?

Leon Sumbitches
Mar 27, 2010

Dr. Leon Adoso Sumbitches (prounounced soom-'beh-cheh) (born January 21, 1935) is heir to the legendary Adoso family oil fortune.





cool dance moves posted:

Aw man he was?

I guess related good stuff: he shot down nazi planes during WWII until he was discharged due to a head injury so at least he fought fascists?

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/roald-dahl-antisemitic-100-years-remembering-author-forgotten-past-a7254266.html


"Even a stinker like Hitler didn't pick on them for no reason"

Samovar
Jun 4, 2011

When I want to relax, I read an essay by Engels. When I want something more serious, I read Corto Maltese.


cool dance moves posted:

Aw man he was?

Yeah, that was my reaction, too.

Chokes McGee
Aug 7, 2008

This is Urotsuki.

:chloe:

I think like everyone reading this owes a happy post now, including the lurkers

THATS RIGHT EVERYONE SEES YOU, REVEAL YOUR SELVES

Krispy Wafer
Jul 26, 2002

I shouted out "Free the exposed 67"
But they stood on my hair and told me I was fat

Grimey Drawer
If you're concerned about antisemitism, it's a really bad idea to look too closely at anyone before 1945. If you're concerned about Zionism it's a real bad idea to look at anyone too closely after 1948. So really there's just a 3 year spot there where you're safe.

PerilPastry
Oct 10, 2012
https://twitter.com/JewishWorker/status/1112362775634997249

https://twitter.com/TheContemptor/status/1112237157983404032

Subjunctive
Sep 12, 2006

✨sparkle and shine✨

oh yes

Data Graham
Dec 28, 2009

📈📊🍪😋



Well that’s one gently caress of a precedent to set

Subjunctive
Sep 12, 2006

✨sparkle and shine✨

Data Graham posted:

Well that’s one gently caress of a precedent to set

both of them, really

oystertoadfish
Jun 17, 2003

i love those random cool judges laying the groundwork for a humane society

ok, here's a happy story from the 'elections have consequences' file. it's a lot of words sorry

'north county', the suburbs north of san diego, are a traditional hotbed of gently caress you got mine conservatism. maybe they will be again, but the 2018 election saw a lot of democrats, many of them hispanics, win majorities in places like escondido:

https://www.voiceofsandiego.org/topics/news/north-county-report-escondido-goes-from-maga-to-mariachi/

quote:

Progressive activists are raising money so they can celebrate the ousting of Escondido Mayor Sam Abed and a majority-Democrat City Council in style Wednesday — with a mariachi band at City Hall.

“We came together as a community to raise our voices,” reads a Go Fund Me page for the musicians, “let the music follow!”

That’s quite a contrast from the Election Night scene at the U.S. Grant Hotel, where Abed declared an early victory and cited the number of undocumented residents who’d been deported since he took office in 2010.

now, the old republican majority was going to build a recycled water desalinization plant in this vacant lot in a residential area full of people republicans don't give a gently caress about :


but the new democratic city council majority and mayor moved the project to a location in an industrial area.

opponents, like avocado growers who want the water and said things like "Project delay is our greatest concern", and people who used the sunk cost fallacy to decry the $5 mil to buy the new location and the $2 mil to build the pipeline there*, had to go gently caress themselves

article from just before the council voted: https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/communities/north-county/sd-no-escondido-water-plant-20190111-story.html
article from just after, with a misleading url (no must signify north county): https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/communities/north-county/sd-no-water-plant-relocation-20190117-story.html

*one of these articles says the plant is $15 mil and the other says $44, so i don't know what the deal is there. they're both written by the same journalist even. anyway, whether it's a 50% or a 15% increase in costs it'll mostly be paid for by the rich people in Escondido, not the poor people who will benefit, which is good imo (edit: i don't actually know how all this works, maybe taxes pay to service the debt for a bond or something, or it's all paid for by regressive sales taxes or some bullshit. whatever)

i don't know if they've started construction yet but this seems like a done deal and likely not to turn into one of those ah well nevertheless things

anyway that's down in the weeds, lots of words, but people won't be staring at a treatment plant for the next forever. i thought i saw something about redeveloping the site pictured above into a park or something but maybe i'm just imagining good things now

oystertoadfish has issued a correction as of 16:57 on Mar 31, 2019

Zeroisanumber
Oct 23, 2010

Nap Ghost

lol this lady was drunk as hell

Inspector Hound
Jul 14, 2003


United States next please

TontoCorazon
Aug 18, 2007


Inspector Hound posted:

United States next please

Seriously, New York first though

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AnoHito
May 8, 2014

TontoCorazon posted:

Seriously, New York first though

San Francisco really needs it way more.

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