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That Works
Jul 22, 2006

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


TheWeedNumber posted:

I was waiting for this.

Same

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hobbesmaster
Jan 28, 2008

Mr. Nice! posted:

Y'all wanna read some of the most racist poo poo I've seen in a while courtesy of one of the members of the Lincoln project? The second tweet in this thread alone, woof.

https://twitter.com/SteveSchmidtSES/status/1415429331468365829

It really takes off in the second tweet.
https://twitter.com/SteveSchmidtSES/status/1415429333397786636

I don't actually think very much American "treasure" was invested in the country.

https://twitter.com/SteveSchmidtSES/status/1415429335452950533

I'm not sure how Karzai being a land surveyor or a slave owning plantation owner would help. I'm sure they'd have a lot of notes to share on grifting though. https://ivn.us/2016/11/28/modern-lessons-george-washingtons-expense-accounts
edit: i'm not as familiar with washington's land speculation but I'm sure theres some spectacular self dealing there

hobbesmaster fucked around with this message at 15:38 on Jul 15, 2021

Immanentized
Mar 17, 2009

Mr. Nice! posted:

Y'all wanna read some of the most racist poo poo I've seen in a while courtesy of one of the members of the Lincoln project? The second tweet in this thread alone, woof.

https://twitter.com/SteveSchmidtSES/status/1415429331468365829

This isn't just racist as hell, this is like Reconstruction/Gilded Age racism. There's no nuance or consideration to any of this, just straight-up "They are brutes, and not part of the white man's burden". Hasn't Schmidt gotten in trouble for similar diatribes recently?

Robert Facepalmer
Jan 10, 2019


Immanentized posted:

Hasn't Schmidt gotten in trouble for similar diatribes recently?
How else you gonna get that blue check!

Johnny Five-Jaces
Jan 21, 2009


Mr. Nice! posted:

Y'all wanna read some of the most racist poo poo I've seen in a while courtesy of one of the members of the Lincoln project? The second tweet in this thread alone, woof.

https://twitter.com/SteveSchmidtSES/status/1415429331468365829

lol what a perfect way to end that first tweet

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS
Anyone who splits sentences across tweets is deranged regardless of content.

That Works
Jul 22, 2006

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


https://twitter.com/erikfinman/status/1415328529034715141?s=20

bengy81
May 8, 2010

Oh man, that app store is gonna be amazing.

Stultus Maximus
Dec 21, 2009

USPOL May

hobbesmaster posted:

It really takes off in the second tweet.
https://twitter.com/SteveSchmidtSES/status/1415429333397786636

I don't actually think very much American "treasure" was invested in the country.

https://twitter.com/SteveSchmidtSES/status/1415429335452950533

I'm not sure how Karzai being a land surveyor or a slave owning plantation owner would help. I'm sure they'd have a lot of notes to share on grifting though. https://ivn.us/2016/11/28/modern-lessons-george-washingtons-expense-accounts
edit: i'm not as familiar with washington's land speculation but I'm sure theres some spectacular self dealing there

I was going to nominate "blood and treasure" as an overused cliché that needs to be banned but on second thought it is a good way to instantly identify the author as a moron.

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


Pillbug

"Youngest Bitcoin Billionare"
Says all you need to say about this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyKt8_ZLxUg

boop the snoot
Jun 3, 2016

In the video he says something like “imagine if they tried to censor MLK”

Butter Activities
May 4, 2018

Hmm yeah imagine if the government did anything to MLK

FrozenVent
May 1, 2009

The Boeing 737-200QC is the undisputed workhorse of the skies.

I hope they rolled their own crypto.

That Works
Jul 22, 2006

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


boop the snoot posted:

In the video he says something like “imagine if they tried to censor MLK”

Yeah that was like 90% of why I posted it lmao

ASAPI
Apr 20, 2007
I invented the line.


Went to the site and found this gem half way down:

quote:

Some of the most popular banned & unbanned conservative sites & apps. Pre-loaded directly on your phone.

Defenestrategy
Oct 24, 2010

FrozenVent posted:

I hope they rolled their own crypto.

I'm willing to bet all of the apps on this app store are gonna be bitcoin miners in disguise.

Butter Activities
May 4, 2018

FrozenVent posted:

I hope they rolled their own crypto.

Oh 100% it’ll be running some horrible android fork that offers no more features riddled with vulns and spyware but it’s a randian patriot hero and not BIG TECH doing it so it’s okay.

Also this already exists and is relatively not poo poo or even that hard to use, it’s just marketed to hacker types and security nerds. Graphene OS.

Butter Activities
May 4, 2018

ASAPI posted:

Went to the site and found this gem half way down:

Lol called it

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


Pillbug

ASAPI posted:

Went to the site and found this gem half way down:

I mean, just look at him: His face/hair screams Libertarian or Alt-Right fuckface. He's using his "beard" as a replacement for a jawline.

CommieGIR fucked around with this message at 16:12 on Jul 15, 2021

Best Friends
Nov 4, 2011

Crypto put a lot of co2 into the atmosphere and facilitates scams and crimes, but our society has deemed those acceptable costs for the benefit of making some of the worst people out there rich.

US Berder Patrol
Jul 11, 2006

oorah

Jarmak posted:

Tbf people are responding to this as if they're crunching tubas but the post lists things like amps, guitars, and mixers. That sounds like the issue was electronic components, which we always destroyed because if we didn't we'd find them in the IEDs we drove over.

I guess this makes me feel a little better about it, so maybe it's a +2 for a sum of -10000

I wish we could have done some good by spending that Blood And Treasure handing out a bunch of recorders and ukeleles to all those kids instead of rifles and radios for the ANA. Good things were never possible

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


Pillbug

Best Friends posted:

Crypto put a lot of co2 into the atmosphere and facilitates scams and crimes, but our society has deemed those acceptable costs for the benefit of making some of the worst people out there rich.

Its questionable that they are "Rich", given that most of these guys cannot liquidate their Crypto into actual fiat currency (which is the only way Crypto has actual value) and which is why this is also likely a scam, because only scam artists appeal to their wealth to sell a product.

Kinda like Trump.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

facialimpediment posted:

If you're seeking pretrial release for insurrection at the Capitol, I do not recommend this strategy.

And the judge is like "uhhhhhh... I think you need some time to think about your strategy here"

https://twitter.com/joshgerstein/status/1415341478428221442

Aaaaaaaaaand

https://twitter.com/joshgerstein/status/1415698382992072706

that'll do it!

https://twitter.com/Popehat/status/1415700737971998720

facialimpediment fucked around with this message at 17:04 on Jul 15, 2021

Woodchip
Mar 28, 2010
ring ring
ring ring
ring ring
ring ring
freedom-phone

UP THE BUM NO BABY
Sep 1, 2011

by Hand Knit
https://twitter.com/TOLOnews/status/1415715333743300608?s=19

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


Pillbug

LMAO now that we've pulled out they are full on supporting the guys. Bravo.

ASAPI
Apr 20, 2007
I invented the line.

Remember our hopes and dreams concerning the piss tape? Well... Russia has something:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/15/kremlin-papers-appear-to-show-putins-plot-to-put-trump-in-white-house

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


Pillbug

ASAPI posted:

Remember our hopes and dreams concerning the piss tape? Well... Russia has something:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/15/kremlin-papers-appear-to-show-putins-plot-to-put-trump-in-white-house

Its just a tape of someone with a Russian accent driving by a burning United States saying "Holy poo poo, Piss".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUz9xCTOPRw

Loden Taylor
Aug 11, 2003

Jarmak posted:

Tbf people are responding to this as if they're crunching tubas but the post lists things like amps, guitars, and mixers. That sounds like the issue was electronic components, which we always destroyed because if we didn't we'd find them in the IEDs we drove over.

Yeah, sorry, I should have clarified; there were absolutely tubas and other wind instruments going into the shredder. From what I've been told, there was a full ensemble's worth of instruments and gear at BAF that deploying bands would fall in on so they didn't have to bring their own, and when it looked like things were winding down, most of it ended up getting trashed.

then we kept going there for like 7 more years except now we had to bring all our own poo poo lol

From a logistics standpoint I get it; bands are MTOE'd only so many instruments, and there's no point in shipping stuff home that's both an overage and is past its Army lifecycle date anyway. So you bring home what you can use - 10th Mountain nabbed all the heavy-duty folding music stands and the modular Wenger practice rooms, I think 101st grabbed some microphones as they finished up closing things down - shop out whatever you can to the ANA band, and then the rest gets shredded, because why send it stateside to put it up on the GSA auction site when you'll only make back a fraction of what it cost to ship?

But when I think about the story a friend of mine who had been in 101st told me, about giving a euphonium to one of the ANA guys, and how loving happy that guy was to have it, the whole thing starts to feel like the bit in The Grapes of Wrath about the oranges being sprayed with kerosene. Such an obscene waste.

Handsome Ralph
Sep 3, 2004

Oh boy, posting!
That's where I'm a Viking!


ASAPI posted:

Remember our hopes and dreams concerning the piss tape? Well... Russia has something:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/15/kremlin-papers-appear-to-show-putins-plot-to-put-trump-in-white-house

"Everything you can imagine is real"

Hyrax Attack!
Jan 13, 2009

We demand to be taken seriously

CommieGIR posted:

LMAO now that we've pulled out they are full on supporting the guys. Bravo.

When we send the annual check for hundreds of millions we should put in the subject line "unfair"

Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

Enjoy every sandwich.

Smellrose

CommieGIR posted:

LMAO now that we've pulled out they are full on supporting the guys. Bravo.

And they're a nuclear power too, so when this bites them in the rear end we'll have to care.

bulletsponge13
Apr 28, 2010

Shocked. Shocked, I say. /s

Bell_
Sep 3, 2006

Tiny Baltimore
A billion light years away
A goon's posting the same thing
But he's already turned to dust
And the shitpost we read
Is a billion light-years old
A ghost just like the rest of us

Immanentized posted:

This isn't just racist as hell, this is like Reconstruction/Gilded Age racism. There's no nuance or consideration to any of this, just straight-up "They are brutes, and not part of the white man's burden". Hasn't Schmidt gotten in trouble for similar diatribes recently?
Courtesy of Behind the Bastards, I'm a bit less ignorant, but I'm pissed I hadn't heard of the Duller Brothers until a few days ago. Not that we'd be angels in their absence, but so much of our abhorrent poo poo can still be traced back to their ideals that people follow without questioning it.

davecrazy
Nov 25, 2004

I'm an insufferable shitposter who does not deserve to root for such a good team. Also, this is what Matt Harvey thinks of me and my garbage posting.

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

And they're a nuclear power too, so when this bites them in the rear end we'll have to care.

They've been doing it for decades.

Hyrax Attack!
Jan 13, 2009

We demand to be taken seriously

Without being well informed on the subject, which country would be most/least likely to have a nuke go missing? I'd guess NK would be most likely, maybe Israel least likely?

UP THE BUM NO BABY
Sep 1, 2011

by Hand Knit

Bell_ posted:

Courtesy of Behind the Bastards, I'm a bit less ignorant, but I'm pissed I hadn't heard of the Duller Brothers until a few days ago. Not that we'd be angels in their absence, but so much of our abhorrent poo poo can still be traced back to their ideals that people follow without questioning it.

lol those episodes were pretty much just a precis of what the Dulles brothers got up to

Stultus Maximus
Dec 21, 2009

USPOL May

ASAPI posted:

Remember our hopes and dreams concerning the piss tape? Well... Russia has something:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/15/kremlin-papers-appear-to-show-putins-plot-to-put-trump-in-white-house

Part of me thinks that this is an authentic fake created by the FSB to undermine western media credibility when it's proven to be a forgery.

Stultus Maximus
Dec 21, 2009

USPOL May
CJCS discussed a plan with the other top brass to resign en masse if Trump attempted to use the military to remain in office.

https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1415472541985083394

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Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

Enjoy every sandwich.

Smellrose

Stultus Maximus posted:

CJCS discussed a plan with the other top brass to resign en masse if Trump attempted to use the military to remain in office.

https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1415472541985083394

Couldn't they just arrest him for giving an illegal order or refuse to obey an illegal order or something else? Resigning en masse only works if there isn't some dipshit lower down the ladder who would actually follow through with what Trump wanted.

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