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Oct 29, 2012
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Star Man posted:

Unban Tiny Brontosaurus you loving cowards

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WrenP-Complete posted:

Resources related to the Thomas Fire:

http://library.sbcc.edu/blog/2017/12/06/resources-for-students-impacted-by-the-thomas-fire/

Please let me know if anyone needs help or support via PM or Discord (Wren #7859). Stay safe, goons.
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tentative8e8op posted:

The Hurricane information document was updated, and there are a whole mess of new PR resources to check out, including ways to get in touch with people who you haven't heard from.

The American Red Cross Safe and Well Website and Univision's local situation information tool are both very helpful.

If you are in the U.S. and need to find your family in Puerto Rico:
Write to the Puerto Rico Federal Affairs Administration by emailing maria1@prfaa.pr.gov. Due to the large volume of emails, do not send more than one unless the situation of your family member has changed.
Call the Puerto Rico Federal Affairs Administration: 202-800-3133
Call the radio station WIPR 787-777-0940
Call the Puerto Rico Family Institute at 212-414-7895. They are helping PRFAA because their lines are slammed. Just go through the recorded message and press any key.

We would also like to point out an opportunity to help that seems well suited to many goons:
People in the diaspora with a tech-related background who want to donate their expertise are encouraged to fill out the Maria Tech Recovery Effort form. This form is being managed by a group organizing through Startups of Puerto Rico who will work to connect key people on the ground in PR with the best talent in the diaspora. In order to partner effectively, they are using the form to create an “inventory” of talent that can be leveraged to help stand up services and share resources.
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:ussr: Please join the Democratic Socialists of America. :ussr:



Unkempt posted:

The rats are deserting a sinking ship except the ship is made entirely out of tangled rats

WeAreTheRomans posted:

I doubt the Trump Era will only be defined by a single insane quote. His whole array of demented verbal tics will be in our lexicon long after he strokes out while taking a poo poo
Trump continues to be completely loving insane, and apparently the OP of the Trump thread has joined him. Let us continue to discuss the ongoing catastrofuck that is America under the Trump administration.

Thread Rules*:
Please no relitigating Hillary v. Bernie. It goes on for days and nobody's mind gets changed.

Please don't constantly ask what has happened since you last checked the thread. Instead, use this:
https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/

Please don't respond to 45 ACP CURES NAZIS, 8-Bit Scholar, akma, Azhais, Bashez, BetterToRuleInHell (an MIGF rereg who also uses the alt accounts ThisIsWhyTrumpWon and ISeeCuckedPeople), bird cooch, Bondii, Calibanibal, Caros, CassandraSupreme, Chadderbox, Cingulate, cravius, DandyLion, Darth Windu (or his rereg JailTrump), dbukalski, Dead Reckoning, Enigma89, gohmak, Gold Sexy Body, gowb, Heliogabalos, INITIALCUMOFFERING, JacobinPhoney, John Henry Miller, Kekekela, KillHour, Knifegrab, LeJackal, logosanatic, Mnoba, namaste faggots, NathanScottPhillips, nessin, NiceGuy, NothingMatters, PainterofCrap, Petr, PCOSBill, pkay, poopinmymouth, R-Type, Race Realists, Rent-A-Cop, Retro42, sarehu, Sinteres, smoke something bitch, SocketWrench, steinrokkan, SweetAsselin, tehinternet, Telsa Cola, terrorist ambulance, The Kingfish, ThisIsJohnWayne (probably MIGF), TROIKA CURES GREEK, twodot, Verranicus, Vladimir Putin, white sauce, Xombie, or Yug. They are posting in bad faith, and some are outright bigots.

Leon Trotsky 2012 used to be an okay poster, but more and more frequently posts awful things to get a reaction out of people. Don't fall for it.

:siren:Please report awful, bigoted, or bad-faith posters whenever possible.:siren:

Koalas March posted:

Anyone advocating for genocide is subhuman, full stop. hth

Even if you don't agree with Prester Jane's theories, insulting her based on mental health issues is out of line and says bad things about you. Posters have been continually singling her out in demeaning and dismissive ways, and it's gross.

Quit whining about Koalas March's gifs. It's pathetic and completely transparent.

Koalas March posted:

Real talk: if you didn't join the forums to dunk on lovely people I don't want to know you

Like don't even breathe in my direction

If you meet a Nazi on the road, punch them. For why doing this is important, please consult the excellent essay about Nazis that marshmonkey reposted.

Please don't use Mensch or people in her circle as a source. They refuse to vet their information or filter out obvious nonsense. Additionaly, the @RoguePOTUSStaff account is fake and possibly a disinformation attempt. Instead, here's a list of better sources from the old thread:

quote:

@costareports (Robert Costa, Washington Post, formerly National Review): Conservative-leaning journalist to whom Republican sources often leak backroom stories (Republican retreats, Presidential campaigns, etc.)
@JohnJHarwood (John Harwood, CNBC, New York Times): Has a lot of sources in the Republican Party and was the first to report on Paul Manafort leaving the Trump campaign in August 2016.
@daveweigel (Dave Weigel, Bloomberg Politics, formerly Slate): "Idiosyncratic libertarian" journalist who is second only to Robert Costa in connections/interviews with Republican officials. Contrary to popular belief, not D&D superstar Joementum.
@BruceBartlett (Bruce Bartlett, ex-Reagan/Bush official): "Lifelong conservative who now thinks the GOP panders to fools, whom he calls wankers. My tweets should not always be taken seriously."
The following are semi-random selections from a list offered by Rygar201 and may be good or bad.
@owillis (Olivier Willis, research fellow, Media Matters)
@mattyglesias (Matt Yglesias, executive editor, Vox)
@JuddLegum (Judd Legum, Editor-in-Chief, Think Progress)
@dick_nixon "37th President of the United States. Messages from the President are unsigned, others from Ronald Ziegler. "
@EricBoehlert (Eric Boehlert, Media Matters)
@JamilSmith (Jamil Smith, senior editor, The New Republic)
@jonathanchait (Jonathan Chait, New York Magazine)
@nielslesniewski (Neils Lesniewski, Senate coverage, Roll Call)
@abwhite7 (Abraham White, former comms for Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chuck Schumer (D-NY))
@DSenFloor (Senate D Floor Watch): "Live floor updates from the Senate Democrats"
@billmon1 (Billmon)
@ebruenig (Elizabeth Bruenig, The New Republic)

Please don't be a Covok (i.e. a doomsaying jerk). Being terrified by how things are is healthy. Constantly and exclusively posting about things being awful forever is not only low-content, it's using the suffering of others as an excuse to get attention while lashing out at others for not being miserable like you. And certainly don't take glee in claiming things won't matter.

Don't be awful about Barron Trump. He's eleven years old. Every other Trump family member is fair, but let Barron be a kid for just a small bit. In general, just leave people's kids out of it.

Don't try to be the tone police. Trump supporters constantly make death threats and vomit hate speech. It's okay to be assholes to them. In fact, it's your patriotic duty.

The dog rule may be dead, but dog pictures are always appreciated.

Saying "nothing matters" is useless or worse. By posting it you're either being an rear end in a top hat because you support awful people and don't want them punished, or you're letting depression make you into a loser by trying to inflict it on others.

Don't put stroking your own ego about how pure you are over actual electoral and policy success. You feeling nice about never compromising doesn't keep disenfranchised people from dying.

Things are not normal. Stop pretending they are. Stop criticizing people for being rightfully afraid, or for taking steps to protect themselves.

An individual minority or woman being an awful person who enables Republicans is not an excuse to be a bigoted or sexist piece of poo poo. I thought this went without saying. skylined! puts it well here:



"Nork" is racist. It is a slur. End of story.

Discendo Vox posted:

Ignore the hokey coal town interview articles, they're not representative. The people who were the core of the Trump support base weren't the impoverished white racists and sexists, it was suburban semi-wealthy racists and sexists.

When articles talk about "economic anxiety" as a predictor of voting behavior in Trump supporters, the measures used were not measures of how poor voters were, or of how at-risk they were. They were measures of how much voters were worried that someone else would get their money. These concerns had no bearing on their actual income or status. The poorer people were, the more likely they were to vote Democratic. The "working class" Trump supporters aren't the main group of people who get hurt or die in the time ahead.

Hieronymous Alloy posted:

"kawv-FEH-feh," not "kōv-FEEF"

Juggalos are pretty chill people. Here's a documentary about them.

Please read The Case for Reparations when you get a moment.

Neat Stuff:
Xibanya has made a fun tool that takes screen captures of the front page of various news sites at a given time. It can be found here:
https://xibanya.github.io/frontpages

Party Plane Jones' tweet recaps are an excellent way to catch up on news.

Robot Hobo made an insightful and useful post about subtly winning over conservative coworkers and such.

Mezzanine made a bingo card generator for Spicer press conferences (RIP):

MIGF's trolling prompted this excellent post about modern masculinity.

Colin Mockery posted:

Oh man, what a coincidence, I'm also concerned about boys' and young men's relationships to their masculinity and how cultural expectations might make them feel as if they aren't sufficiently masculine or feel forced to change how they express themselves in a way that causes them emotional harm!

Have you watched The Mask You Live In yet? It's a great documentary about this exact subject and it's available on Netflix!

You know what else I like that talks about boys and their relationship to masculinity and how to be a good role model so that boys feel confident, safe, and happy in relation to their masculinity?

The Good Men Project

I don't actually read it that often because it turns out I don't actually care about kids that much, but it sounds like something you might be really interested in! Have you tried volunteering for things like Big Brothers Big Sisters? That's a good way to try and model good behavior and help kids grow up happy and supported too!

I'm so glad you care about dismantling the harmful expectations put on young men as they grow up, and about providing them with ample examples of how men can express their masculinity in ways that are healthy and honest.

But really, it's a good documentary and it really is on Netflix.

Sinteres got owned by Covok.

BrianBoitano posted:

Neat Mooch mp4 #1 removed for size, click quote text to see it.

Azhais posted:

Neat Mooch mp4 #2 removed for size, click quote text to see it.

After toxxing to write a long slashfic of McCain with Obama if the former actually went through with voting against the latest repeal attempt, Endorph followed through.

Randbrick posted:

Shucks is like a space alien who kidnaps you and subjects you to a comically fake construction of a human town with a human office building where you do human work, staffed with mantis people wearing crude obvious human masks

And you can tell her a thousand times you know full well this is a fabrication and that she isn't human and she'll just smile at you and bare her teeth and soldier on like tom has had his human birthday. We are office. But the hell of it, the aliens don't even understand humans enough to understand dishonesty or to gauge that your rejection of the false reality means, you just have to keep going and watching the mantis people of the Jesus nebula fail to trick you forever

Someone made an album of all the times Trump's aides have talked about him acting like a toddler.



A link to the old thread. :pisstape:

*Enforcement of these or any forum rules subject to mod discretion. Sometimes this thread goes a long time without mods stopping by.

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Oct 29, 2012
Dinosaur Gum

Mister Adequate posted:

Trump Thread II: Blood On Montana Beach

Old, but mods? Also, please fix my horrible omission of the orb thread tag please.

A Shitty Reporter
Oct 29, 2012
Dinosaur Gum
It's closer to a fifth or so.

A Shitty Reporter
Oct 29, 2012
Dinosaur Gum

Low Desert Punk posted:

yo guys, freddy vs jason is on syfy right now

As a fan of garbage movies, it's not that good. Catch a highlight reel of it on YouTube, but don't spend time watching the whole thing.

A Shitty Reporter
Oct 29, 2012
Dinosaur Gum
They're mountains, numbnuts.

A Shitty Reporter
Oct 29, 2012
Dinosaur Gum
Thread rules have been updated.

A Shitty Reporter
Oct 29, 2012
Dinosaur Gum
Shut up about your book series that's never getting finished and start stabbing nazis.

A Shitty Reporter
Oct 29, 2012
Dinosaur Gum

Boris Galerkin posted:

What is covfefe

It's not anything. It's a typo, a stroke, or brain degeneration that Trump made in a tweet, deleted hours later, then made another tweet pretending it meant anything. Hate-filled idiots and self-interested vultures have, as always, rushed to his defense. It's meaningless, and anyone claiming otherwise has outed themselves as caring more about loyalty to a senile traitor than they care about other human beings.

A Shitty Reporter
Oct 29, 2012
Dinosaur Gum
Thread rules have been updated again, because apparently some people can't leave literal children out of this.

A Shitty Reporter
Oct 29, 2012
Dinosaur Gum

Skex posted:

The good poo poo

Sorely tempted to replace the OP with this.

A Shitty Reporter
Oct 29, 2012
Dinosaur Gum

pacmania90 posted:

Hey Stone Cold, do you believe that leftists and antifas should buy guns and use them to kill nazis?

I do. And knives, brass knuckles, lengths of metal pipe, and whatever weapons are available. By being Nazis, they are openly promising to murder society's most vulnerable. Why the hell should we let them?

A Shitty Reporter
Oct 29, 2012
Dinosaur Gum
I just keep the detachable metal handle for my vacuum cleaner within reach from my bed.

A Shitty Reporter
Oct 29, 2012
Dinosaur Gum
Thanks for taking it down. And yeah, don't do that stuff. Thread rules updated.

A Shitty Reporter
Oct 29, 2012
Dinosaur Gum
Apoplexy, Aurubin, what the gently caress? Don't be misogynist creeps. Or at least post like you aren't. God's sake.

A Shitty Reporter
Oct 29, 2012
Dinosaur Gum
Oh yeah, the printer watermark stuff has been going on for a while. I read about it five, maybe ten years ago. That's the power of tiny little tricks like these, if there are enough of them then people can't keep track.

A Shitty Reporter
Oct 29, 2012
Dinosaur Gum
Even physical typewriters won't evade identification, because different models have different fonts and formatting, and once the model's pinned down they can check out the wear patterns on the individual letters and match it up to a specific typewriter. You'd have to cobble one together, swap out keys continuously, or melt it down and get a replacement periodically.

A Shitty Reporter
Oct 29, 2012
Dinosaur Gum
Quite frankly I think the Intercept did this on purpose. They're allied with Assange, and their actions here would require such a long and specific chain of errors that it makes for sense for it to be intentional.

A Shitty Reporter
Oct 29, 2012
Dinosaur Gum
I have little sympathy for people trying to commit nation-wide murder-suicide.

A Shitty Reporter
Oct 29, 2012
Dinosaur Gum

DACK FAYDEN posted:

"Lordy, I hope there are tapes" - James Comey 2017

Mods, pretty please?

A Shitty Reporter
Oct 29, 2012
Dinosaur Gum
I love how the thread title also works for Eichenwald.

A Shitty Reporter
Oct 29, 2012
Dinosaur Gum
Yeah. I'm mid-twenties and they tried to teach us the double-space rule on those old see-through Mac computers with the weird disc mice.

A Shitty Reporter
Oct 29, 2012
Dinosaur Gum
Some families around where I grew up still had CRTs into the early 2000s, and they were stinking rich.

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Oct 29, 2012
Dinosaur Gum

Dapper_Swindler posted:

gently caress. giant boost in pages. what happend now?

Arrested Development chat.

A Shitty Reporter
Oct 29, 2012
Dinosaur Gum
Thread rules updated yet again. enraged_camel, Spiritus Nox, shut up about how nothing matters. The only thing that doesn't matter here is you.

A Shitty Reporter
Oct 29, 2012
Dinosaur Gum

Lightning Lord posted:

Buttcoin for weed? :laugh:

One of many, many weed-based bitcoin variants.

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Oct 29, 2012
Dinosaur Gum

SKULL.GIF posted:

As a direct result of Republican policies, millions of people will die over the next two decades. The Republicans are fully cognizant of this. They are a menace to the people.

Trabisnikof posted:

Murdering for a paycheck: sane
Murdering the powerful who are trying to destroy the world and your life: insane

A Shitty Reporter
Oct 29, 2012
Dinosaur Gum
The far right wing commit political murder on a semi-regular basis. That's why yesterday was pounced upon so quickly: someone on the left doing it is a relative rarity, so they felt the need to yell about it loudly to try to make it seem equivalent. But they're always yelling as loud as they can, and that only works for so long until it starts losing its effect. They're already constantly accusing Dems and liberals of this sort of thing anyway. They've gone so loud for so long that they've run out of room to escalate without making prosecution-worthy statements. When everything is the end of the world, nothing is.

A Shitty Reporter
Oct 29, 2012
Dinosaur Gum
Prester Jane, be careful not to let your useful theory become the only way you view the world. Things are going to get better, and you shouldn't let your fears drive you to theatrics or self-aggrandizement. It's not healthy, and it's not helpful for communicating your theories.

Botany, you've been constantly sniping at her for months now. Shut the hell up about it.

Ogmius, your posts contribute nothing, as do you.

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Oct 29, 2012
Dinosaur Gum

Owlofcreamcheese posted:

Does anyone like me?

Everybody likes you.

A Shitty Reporter
Oct 29, 2012
Dinosaur Gum
Boon is saying that things currently matter, and that Mueller getting fired would be bad. This is really clear. At this point I think people are deliberately misinterpreting him so they can suggest defeatist ideas while claiming he's the one doing it.

A Shitty Reporter
Oct 29, 2012
Dinosaur Gum
Nazis were still humans. That didn't lessen their crimes or make them any less deserving of death. In my opinion it made it worse. An animal does not bear responsibility for its actions. A human does. And being happy when cruel, actively harmful people suffer is not some sort of monstrous attitude like some of you so desperately want it to be. Shooting a Nazi does not mean you are just as bad. It means you prevented them from harming others.

People have the right to defend themselves and others from the cruel.

A Shitty Reporter
Oct 29, 2012
Dinosaur Gum
Gee, I'd sure like to actually see that data these assholes are collecting on me. Seems like we should have more right to see it than they do.

Also, don't engage with cravius, report him instead. He's horrendously racist and should have been banned years ago.

A Shitty Reporter
Oct 29, 2012
Dinosaur Gum
Thread rules amended to remind people not to respond to Leon Trotsky 2012.

A Shitty Reporter
Oct 29, 2012
Dinosaur Gum

Hellblazer187 posted:

Do you think Pelosi drives our base out to vote?

That's not her job. And to head off the next post you're teeing up here, she doesn't drive conservative turnout either, she's the interchangeable pog they stick into their premade scripts. She's one of our party's greatest assets, and quite frankly I'm glad she upsets Republicans so much. I want to cause them emotional distress, so they at least feel some of the pain they're inflicting on the rest of us.

A Shitty Reporter
Oct 29, 2012
Dinosaur Gum
Anyone who supports this bill should be harvested for their organs alive.

A Shitty Reporter
Oct 29, 2012
Dinosaur Gum
:siren::siren::siren:

No more whining about Ossof or Pelosi past this point, you morons.

:siren::siren::siren:

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Oct 29, 2012
Dinosaur Gum

Teriyaki Koinku posted:

Poetic platitudes are really weak in TYOOL 2017, especially after making a public display of vacationing with billionaires and getting Wall Street checks to cash in on his resume after eight years of missing the mark.

He needs to straight up explicitly say "People are going to die in droves from this, assholes " and drop the mic. But that's fundamentally not who Obama actually is. :sigh:

He has done more to help other human beings in one hour than you have your entire life, you self-congratulating lazy gently caress.

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Oct 29, 2012
Dinosaur Gum

WampaLord posted:

No, I'm sorry, the narrative is that you "lost" and therefore there's nothing to be learned from the situation. Thanks for playing.

Take this poo poo to the performative misery thread. Leave this thread. Don't post in it again until you're willing to stop parroting Republican talking points. Either they're playing you for a chump, or you want to hurt the Democratic Party more than you actually want to help other human beings. Either way, your posts here do nothing but stroke your own ego while trying to hurt other people. Get out.

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Oct 29, 2012
Dinosaur Gum

WampaLord posted:

Whoa, hey, take it to the Democrat thread!

You're doing the Republican's work for them, you outrage-addicted moron. Out.

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Oct 29, 2012
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Also, for the record, the Democratic Party desperately need to campaign further left in any and all parts of the country where it's viable, and I think they drastically underestimate how much of the country that is. While Ossoff was probably the closest thing to a winning D candidate for GA-06, he's bad optics for the rest of the party and needs to be offset by drastically more leftist candidates in other areas.

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