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pantslesswithwolves posted:Palate cleanser: what’s everyone reading these days? I’m picking this up; it seems like a great “how I met your matriarch” story to tell the kids at Antifa Indoctrination and Training after we seize them from their beheaded white parents. If you don't already listen to it, go check out the Lions Led By Donkeys podcast by Joe Kassabian. It's great. He's a leftist and completely hates the military, so he'd fit right in here. I just finished his first two books, working on the third. His first book is called The Hooligans of Kandahar, about his group of misfit soldiers in his squad, and the hijinks they did, the stupidity and incompetence they endured, and more. Very good book. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07D26JRXJ/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_vXxvFbHBAMTC4 His other books are sci fi, and are going to be a trilogy, though there are only two out so far. They're both great. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07SG7KH5Z/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_QXxvFbD2HFSA1 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08BSZPWKS/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_JYxvFb9Q6ETT9
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Bouncing between "Stamped from the Beginning", "Legion vs Phalanx", and "He'll in a Small Place". I just finished "Call Me God" about the hunt for the DC Sniper.
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Sep 7, 2020 01:32
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pantslesswithwolves posted:Palate cleanser: what’s everyone reading these days?  Refreshingly straightforward compared to a lot of today's overly academic or meandering writing, sadly 100% relevant as if nothing changed since it was written.
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Sep 7, 2020 01:34
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pantslesswithwolves posted:Palate cleanser: what’s everyone reading these days? I'm reading the Oddjobs series by Heide Goody and Iain Grant. It's hilarious.
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Sep 7, 2020 01:38
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Godholio posted:Beowulf: A New Translation. Actually, from my knowledge, the reason "Bro!" works is because the first word in Beowulf is untranslatable, so the translators just use the best extant stand-in words they can, or just go with the *tenor*, like with "Bro!"
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Sep 7, 2020 01:43
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BTB read another chapter of ben shapiro's awful, awful tom clancy ripoff this week https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/
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Sep 7, 2020 02:07
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https://twitter.com/MtnMD/status/1302494236265205760
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Sep 7, 2020 02:14
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Nick Soapdish posted:2024 is gonna be a hell of a Presidential campaign. Assuming Biden wins, he's said he will only serve a single term so Kamala won't have that usual incumbent boost. And if Trump wins then it is another four years of even more insane poo poo that just erases normal and breaks laws. Either way, the next campaign is gonna be full fasc I'm wondering if the GOP would go back with Trump in 2024 or say "thanks, but no thanks", at which point Trump goes full Perot out of spite. But, if he wins (and I hope to gently caress he doesn't)... That Works posted:I mean 100% honestly I see him as vastly more likely to be the next nominee than anyone else. Pompeo would be the 2nd most likely to me. Both of them have for whatever reason not gotten the downsides of the 2016 field and have managed to be 100% favorable to the current administration and can still sit back and say they are "original / non Trump" Republicans if they really need to (Cotton moreso). ...I wouldn't be surprised at all if Trump starts talking a Trump Dynasty if he wins and somehow catapults Don Jr. onto the ticket in '24. 
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Sep 7, 2020 02:18
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Photoshopped, unfortunately. The pole and flag.
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Sep 7, 2020 02:30
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Godholio posted:Beowulf: A New Translation. Unfiltered opinion: I'm about this. This is my poo poo, made4me
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Sep 7, 2020 02:32
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pantslesswithwolves posted:Palate cleanser: what’s everyone reading these days? I’m picking this up; it seems like a great “how I met your matriarch” story to tell the kids at Antifa Indoctrination and Training after we seize them from their beheaded white parents. elise the great had a review of that in c-spam and was not impressed with the writing.
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Sep 7, 2020 02:32
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Godholio posted:Beowulf: A New Translation. I like how it keeps the old english alliterative rhyming style.
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Sep 7, 2020 02:54
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Not as much as other versions, but it's definitely there. The page formatting is set up for it, too, which I did not try to copy.
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Sep 7, 2020 03:21
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BIG HEADLINE posted:The GOP candidate in 2024, assuming there IS a 2024 election, will be something the RNC cloned in a vat. That is, a relative unknown that they've groomed to be palatable to both establishment Republicans *and* the MAGA Chuds. Mayor Pete was the boys from brazil test dry run
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Sep 7, 2020 03:34
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pantslesswithwolves posted:Palate cleanser: what’s everyone reading these days? I’m picking this up; it seems like a great “how I met your matriarch” story to tell the kids at Antifa Indoctrination and Training after we seize them from their beheaded white parents.    also audiobook editions of Dr. Cornel West's Race Matters and Pat Conroy's Prince of Tides shame on an IGA fucked around with this message at 03:41 on Sep 7, 2020 |
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Sep 7, 2020 03:38
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Race Matters is easily the best of the bunch, like almost a third of it is explicitly about not letting nihilism gently caress you up which is p. relevant in this moment
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Sep 7, 2020 03:43
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Days of Rage, by Bryan Burrough. An account of how leftist activists in the late 60s crawled up their own asses politically, then failed to achieve any of their objectives (end racism, reform justice system, end Vietnam war).
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Sep 7, 2020 04:07
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Can you give us the TLDR about how they went up their asses as opposed to getting Fred Hampton'd
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Sep 7, 2020 04:11
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A group of (white) law and polisci students split off from the main leftist protest organization, Students for a Democratic Society, formed a group called the Weather Underground, then through a copious amount of drugs and group sex convinced themselves they were the vanguard of a communist revolution. They committed a string of minor bombings, because in those days you could buy cases of dynamite with a drivers license. Their major claim to fame is a cell of Weathermen blowing up the townhouse they were staying in that was owned by a cell members rich parents.. Their intention was to be an ally org for the Black Panthers, but friction between the two groups, and after Hampton was killed they went in separate directions. I haven't gotten to the BLA/SLA part of the book yet. It seems, and this is in retrospect, that it might be difficult to bring the working class of America to your cause when you run naked around high schools and college campuses shouting about Mao and Ho Chi Minh.
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Sep 7, 2020 04:33
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So my “what are you reading?” post was mostly a joke to introduce that My Antifa Lover book you the thread, but real talk- I’ve been slowly picking away at Alex Vitale’s The End of Policing.. if you’ve ever read Christian Parenti’s Lockdown America (which was written 20 years ago but is still depressingly prescient) you’ll note many of the same themes, but yeah- US law enforcement is hosed. On a happier note, I did my annual read of all of my Calvin and Hobbes books recently. Still as magical as ever and still just as subversive. Bill Watterson really is a natural treasure and an artist who was truly ahead of his time. Also, despite not being a parent, I find myself identifying more with Calvin’s dad each day, especially his staunch anti-consumerist and anti-media views. He’s also a grumpy cyclist like me.
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Sep 7, 2020 04:43
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I think you could redeem breakfast cereal boxes for TNT in those days.
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Sep 7, 2020 04:43
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We got the son of two Weather Underground people elected DA here in SF. It's been great. He ended cash bail, didn't prosecute anyone for protesting, and makes cops incredibly angry. To be honest I think he thinks of himself as a centrist.
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Sep 7, 2020 04:43
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i am reading policy because i wanna make E6 in a timely loving manner.
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Sep 7, 2020 04:56
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Doc Hawkins posted:We got the son of two Weather Underground people elected DA here in SF. It's been great. He ended cash bail, didn't prosecute anyone for protesting, and makes cops incredibly angry. Ha, the son of Kathy Boudin and David Gilbert, who were in prison for robbing a bank with the SLA. So they give him to Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, who were also Weathermen. when your folks are that far left anything you do is going to be centrist.
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Sep 7, 2020 04:56
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One Cali wildfire was confirmed to be caused by a gender reveal party: https://twitter.com/CAL_FIRE/status/1302806883409903617 And if you're thinking HEY THIS SOUNDS FAMILIAR, you're right! https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/27/us/arizona-gender-reveal-party-sawmill-wildfire-trnd/index.html
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Sep 7, 2020 04:57
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pantslesswithwolves posted:So my “what are you reading?” post was mostly a joke to introduce that My Antifa Lover book you the thread, but real talk- I’ve been slowly picking away at Alex Vitale’s The End of Policing.. if you’ve ever read Christian Parenti’s Lockdown America (which was written 20 years ago but is still depressingly prescient) you’ll note many of the same themes, but yeah- US law enforcement is hosed. I need to reread these as an adult. I think the last time i went through them was when i was 16
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Sep 7, 2020 04:59
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facialimpediment posted:One Cali wildfire was confirmed to be caused by a gender reveal party: Of course it was that poo poo.
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Sep 7, 2020 05:01
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facialimpediment posted:One Cali wildfire was confirmed to be caused by a gender reveal party: un-loving-believable they didn't say what color the smoke was!
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Sep 7, 2020 05:11
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Doc Hawkins posted:un-loving-believable No new pope.
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Sep 7, 2020 05:12
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Doc Hawkins posted:un-loving-believable It was brown. Parents that dumb, kid's practically bound to be a piece of poo poo.
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Sep 7, 2020 05:19
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Gender reveal parties seem like the best argument in favor of abolishing gender completely.
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Sep 7, 2020 05:30
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Fister Roboto posted:Gender reveal parties seem like the best argument in favor of abolishing humanity completely.
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Sep 7, 2020 05:31
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Colorado news: we just had a string of 90+ degree days, and in less than 24 hours it's supposed to start snowing. 
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Sep 7, 2020 05:45
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Yeah, that's a little annoying. Last year it was early october. It'll all be gone by thursday though. Just means I need to bring my seedlings in tomorrow and turn on the grow lamp. The news earlier said they were expecting snow to not be much of a help for the fires.
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Sep 7, 2020 05:50
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facialimpediment posted:One Cali wildfire was confirmed to be caused by a gender reveal party: These things are chud poo poo to begin with and I bet they aren't remotely concerned that they're teaching those libs a lesson
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Sep 7, 2020 07:13
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Assigned Cop At Birth
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Sep 7, 2020 07:23
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:It was brown. Lol
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Sep 7, 2020 11:22
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Fister Roboto posted:Colorado news: we just had a string of 90+ degree days, and in less than 24 hours it's supposed to start snowing. We’ve already got ash falling like a snow dusting, might as well get some real snow this week
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Sep 7, 2020 17:37
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Just gonna spend my afternoon tomorrow on my balcony watching cars play slip and slide on the relatively busy road I live off. Frank is gonna eat his body weight in snow, though.
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Sep 7, 2020 17:41
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I covered the sprinkler backflow preventer, disconnected the garden hoses, and drained the swamp cooler. Just gotta cover our plants and I'll be good to go (jesus i hope so)
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