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Proud Christian Mom
Dec 20, 2006
READING COMPREHENSION IS HARD

Kesper North posted:

My theory is that it's not a "real" run, just a datamining expedition for Bloomberg Analytica. He'd make more money and have more power from having a viable competitor to SCL/Cambridge Analytica.

I think he's trying to establish himself as Kingmaker while also doing his absolute best to prevent any meaningful move to the left

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Proud Christian Mom
Dec 20, 2006
READING COMPREHENSION IS HARD
also have a glimpse into the NYT's interaction with Bernie

https://twitter.com/People4Bernie/status/1219095357751058432?s=20

Kesper North
Nov 3, 2011

EMERGENCY POWER TO PARTY

Proud Christian Mom posted:

I think he's trying to establish himself as Kingmaker while also doing his absolute best to prevent any meaningful move to the left

Agreed. The datamining operation would be key to that.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice

pantslesswithwolves posted:

Having heard those episodes of Worst Year Ever, the furries do a better job of supporting their community and policing themselves for fascist/racist shitheads than these “constitutional militia” types do.

Nah these organizations do plenty of policing themselves when it comes to fascist/racist poo poo heads. They're just doing it to keep anyone else out and those types in.

Also pretend I had a good joke here about policing themselves when they're already the police. I know there's one in there somewhere.

Brute Squad
Dec 20, 2006

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human race

lol

https://twitter.com/MattGregoryNews/status/1219274476048785409

Jarmak
Jan 24, 2005

Smiling Jack posted:

Yes, because you put it on properly, not like drop-knee commando there.

Oh definitely, I was responding to your comment that seemed to be that they generally are terrible even when used properly and should be avoided if possible.

But I have pretty long arms so the orangutan arms comment was only half-joking.

Smiling Jack
Dec 2, 2001

I sucked a dick for bus fare and then I walked home.

Jarmak posted:

Oh definitely, I was responding to your comment that seemed to be that they generally are terrible even when used properly and should be avoided if possible.

But I have pretty long arms so the orangutan arms comment was only half-joking.

Personally I hate the loving things because even when worn properly running in them sucks balls

Internet Wizard
Aug 9, 2009

BANDAIDS DON'T FIX BULLET HOLES

Milo and POTUS posted:

The end goal of these types is the entire disarmament of people they don't like so they can shoot them without reprisal. There's no need for a first aid kit

But enough about the cops and liberals

This rally has gotta be a centrist dem’s wet dream to finally pass some gun control laws so they can stop getting yelled at for not Doing Something

Right wing gun owners are idiots

bird cooch
Jan 19, 2007

Internet Wizard posted:

But enough about the cops and liberals

This rally has gotta be a centrist dem’s wet dream to finally pass some gun control laws so they can stop getting yelled at for not Doing Something

Right wing gun owners are idiots

Do you think you could fit any more super online bullshit buzzwords into that single post?

CRUSTY MINGE
Mar 30, 2011

Peggy Hill
Foot Connoisseur
Sounds like the wet fart rally is wrapping up. Now awaiting the doxxing that usually follows poo poo like this.

Kesper North
Nov 3, 2011

EMERGENCY POWER TO PARTY
Were there any counterprotesters at all? I haven't seen pictures that seemed to show any. Did they successfully intimidate them all after one got killed last year?

Chichevache
Feb 17, 2010

One of the funniest posters in GIP.

Just not intentionally.

bird cooch posted:

Do you think you could fit any more super online bullshit buzzwords into that single post?

They showed they rear end

UP THE BUM NO BABY
Sep 1, 2011

by Hand Knit

Kesper North posted:

Were there any counterprotesters at all? I haven't seen pictures that seemed to show any. Did they successfully intimidate them all after one got killed last year?

My understanding is that counter-protests were urged not to happen due to the fear of all those idiots with guns wanting to start poo poo. @socialistdogmom was pretty vocal on twitter the past few days urging people to not show up

Proud Christian Mom
Dec 20, 2006
READING COMPREHENSION IS HARD
There's plenty of antifash eyes on the crowd for doxxing later

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



Kesper North posted:

Were there any counterprotesters at all? I haven't seen pictures that seemed to show any. Did they successfully intimidate them all after one got killed last year?

There were apparently a few but predictably they got shouted down.

Internet Wizard
Aug 9, 2009

BANDAIDS DON'T FIX BULLET HOLES

bird cooch posted:

Do you think you could fit any more super online bullshit buzzwords into that single post?

Are you saying these militia idiots aren’t being counterproductive and making it easier to pass restrictions?

Kesper North
Nov 3, 2011

EMERGENCY POWER TO PARTY

Proud Christian Mom posted:

There's plenty of antifash eyes on the crowd for doxxing later

Yeah this is probably the most productive use of time I admit.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
Every time I think about getting into gun poo poo, I remember that I would run into some of these people and I do something else.

https://twitter.com/misstessowen/status/1219314087139651584?s=19

Johnny Five-Jaces
Jan 21, 2009


bird cooch posted:

Do you think you could fit any more super online bullshit buzzwords into that single post?

y u throw chip

Arc Light
Sep 26, 2013



WaPo getting in on NYT's editorial endorsement game:

Washington Post: In a break from tradition, I am endorsing all 12 Democratic candidates

quote:

If there were ever a time to be open to ideas, it is now. But if there were ever a time to seal off our minds from ideas, lest they contaminate and confuse us, it is also now. If there were ever a time to have principles and state them, now is surely that time. But, then again, if there were ever a time to cast principles aside and choose a candidate for sheer pragmatism, now is also that time.

quote:

Yes, in an ideal world, I would only endorse a single candidate. But this election has made it all too clear that we do not live in an ideal world. Therefore, I am endorsing one candidate for each reality: one for what I have dubbed an ideal reality (Warren), one for a “pragmatic” reality (Klobuchar) and 10 others for slightly different versions of reality, in one of which America and Canada are a single entity, and in another one of which, everyone has crab claws for hands! (Pete Buttigieg, John Delaney.) Also, I am endorsing Donald Trump, in the reality where he is a completely different man whom everyone would describe as “very not-racist.”

Internet Wizard
Aug 9, 2009

BANDAIDS DON'T FIX BULLET HOLES

facialimpediment posted:

Every time I think about getting into gun poo poo, I remember that I would run into some of these people and I do something else.

Hit up your local John Brown Gun Club chapter or Socialist Rifle Association.

Also get some stickers/patches from these guys

pantslesswithwolves
Oct 28, 2008

bird cooch posted:

Do you think you could fit any more super online bullshit buzzwords into that single post?

Where exactly is he wrong?

Kesper North
Nov 3, 2011

EMERGENCY POWER TO PARTY

Alexandra Petri is a national treasure. I love her puns.

Jaguars!
Jul 31, 2012


pantslesswithwolves posted:

https://twitter.com/gmoomaw/status/1219259308573184002

Tag yourselves, I’m the drop-knee holster that compliments the rest of the airsoft-grade gear on the dude in the left foreground.

Just imagine these lads' reaction to a bit of night time probing fire

Jaguars!
Jul 31, 2012


Also in poo poo that actually matters there's a big ol' epidemic starting in China:


https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/407753/new-china-virus-cases-triple-as-infection-spreads-to-beijing-and-shanghai

CRUSTY MINGE
Mar 30, 2011

Peggy Hill
Foot Connoisseur
Welp, world needs some population culling, why not start in China.

That Works
Jul 22, 2006

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


Only 3 deaths so far out of ~200 cases. This of course assumes that the news China is releasing is accurate (it's probably not).

New type of Coronavirus looks like it popped over from an animal into humans. Nothing about this one seems super doom worthy (yet) but could turn into a real killer like SARS that doesn't exactly reshape civilizations etc.

e: Much worse this year is the regular influenza A. Bad year for it and it seems there's a couple strong strains circulating at the same time which is atypical meaning you could potentially get flu more than once during the season etc.

Get your flu vaccines if you haven't. Flu season is only just ramping up and it'll probably last longer than usual this time.

hobbesmaster
Jan 28, 2008

That Works posted:

e: Much worse this year is the regular influenza A. Bad year for it and it seems there's a couple strong strains circulating at the same time which is atypical meaning you could potentially get flu more than once during the season etc.

Get your flu vaccines if you haven't. Flu season is only just ramping up and it'll probably last longer than usual this time.

Is the vaccine the wrong strain this year? My wife and I both got the shot and both got the flu right around new years.

Or maybe the vaccine did reduce the severity, in which case holy poo poo I had a fever of 103 how could that have been worse.

FrozenVent
May 1, 2009

The Boeing 737-200QC is the undisputed workhorse of the skies.
It’s been a while since we had a media-fuelled epidemic panic.

CRUSTY MINGE
Mar 30, 2011

Peggy Hill
Foot Connoisseur
My last flu shot was in 2006.

Staying away from people is how I vaccinate myself, but yeah, if you deal with more people than your reflection on a daily basis you probably should get it.

I think the news said this years' formula is better than last years', but the effective rate won't really be known until the end of the season. I think last years was somewhere in the teens in terms of effectiveness.

E: last years shot was around 29% effective.

CRUSTY MINGE fucked around with this message at 21:59 on Jan 20, 2020

Stultus Maximus
Dec 21, 2009

USPOL May
"Epstein didn't kill himself" memes lost their charm when I realized most of them were from alt right memelords.

CRUSTY MINGE
Mar 30, 2011

Peggy Hill
Foot Connoisseur
One of my brothers is posting those stupid cat memes about Epstein and yeah, the alt-right poo poo is pretty much his brand of dumb.

I should just delete my facebook.

Milo and POTUS
Sep 3, 2017

I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

Stultus Maximus posted:

"Epstein didn't kill himself" memes lost their charm when I realized most of them were from alt right memelords.

Yeah :(



CRUSTY MINGE posted:

One of my brothers is posting those stupid cat memes about Epstein and yeah, the alt-right poo poo is pretty much his brand of dumb.

I should just delete my facebook.

Delete facebook. The company in general

Proud Christian Mom
Dec 20, 2006
READING COMPREHENSION IS HARD
they're so close to understanding just what a threat the rich and powerful are, but that last step mind as well be a loving light year

CRUSTY MINGE
Mar 30, 2011

Peggy Hill
Foot Connoisseur
/\ I got in a seriously angry discussion with a friend about rich people a few weeks back. He sided with the rich because he's likely to inherit a million or two, but gripes and bitches on the daily about low pay and loopholes the rich never have to worry about.

We're cool now, but it got tense. Don't defend the rich, they have money for that.

Milo and POTUS posted:

Yeah :(


Delete facebook. The company in general

Facebook is a job source for me until I care enough to find another job. The good news is I'm gradually giving more of a poo poo, so I'll delete it once I'm working at a grow again. Probably gonna be a few more weeks before I'm there, though.

I loving hate using indeed and their like.

CRUSTY MINGE fucked around with this message at 22:42 on Jan 20, 2020

KirbyKhan
Mar 20, 2009



Soiled Meat

Stultus Maximus posted:

"Epstein didn't kill himself" memes lost their charm when I realized most of them were from alt right memelords.

https://twitter.com/ClickHole/status/960568745298223104?s=19

Casimir Radon
Aug 2, 2008


It's not them being right since the whole mythology they've built up around it is that the Clintons had him murdered, and Donnie and one of his lawyers aren't definitely kiddie fuckers.

That Works
Jul 22, 2006

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


hobbesmaster posted:

Is the vaccine the wrong strain this year? My wife and I both got the shot and both got the flu right around new years.

Or maybe the vaccine did reduce the severity, in which case holy poo poo I had a fever of 103 how could that have been worse.

How long was your recovery time? Could have been that you got the high fever but symptoms abated faster. Flu can go >105F depending on the person / other health factors.

I think the vaccine is still good for the predicted strain, but another strain has diverged and spread alongside it. I need to go back and read up more on it, I just saw a little blurb in some of the infectious diseases reporting stuff I follow.

A Bad Poster
Sep 25, 2006
Seriously, shut the fuck up.

:dukedog:

Casimir Radon posted:

It's not them being right since the whole mythology they've built up around it is that the Clintons had him murdered, and Donnie and one of his lawyers aren't definitely kiddie fuckers.

Didn't I see today that Alan Dershowitz is on Donny's defence team for his impeachment?

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CRUSTY MINGE
Mar 30, 2011

Peggy Hill
Foot Connoisseur
Yes, Dershowitz is on Trumps' defense team.

I really want them to put Rudy on there too, just for the trainwreck.

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