That Works posted:

The Onion is pretty good these days

https://twitter.com/WhiteHouse/status/1410709115333234691?s=20

Oh wait

facialimpediment posted:

It appears that Donnie's Beautiful Boaters caused more damage than originally thought, since most incidents didn't make the news: https://twitter.com/swin24/status/1411677784532045826?s=19

quote:

It was unorganized really. I think these people all meant well, they didn’t understand what was going on.

facialimpediment posted:

I've verified this cursed video as real.

https://twitter.com/Phil_Lewis_/status/1411802862695354369

BIG HEADLINE posted:

What's Latin for "Floating Bolthole?"

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/somnio-worlds-first-yacht-liner-unveiled/index.html

200+ feet longer than a Burke-class, displaces over three times more. I'm calling it now, we'll see the first private luxury aircraft carrier in this loving decade.

Wingnut Ninja posted:

Just to put this in perspective, Jeff Bezos could buy this thing outright for roughly the same percentage of his wealth as me buying a 2003 Honda Civic.

stealie72 posted:

I'm not sure why the credo is "always double down" instead of "oops we hosed up." At this point "oops we hosed up" gets it over with way quicker.

Nick Soapdish posted:

https://twitter.com/jonathanvswan/status/1412888525142376457?s=19

RFC2324 posted:

do people think you can just call the kremlin without the nsa being notified?

PookBear posted:

come and take it

Eej posted:

Related note: one year anniversary of the trans lady who wrote the I Sexually Identify As An Attack Helicopter who got canceled by erstwhile allies who didn't even read the short before calling her phobic to the point where she quit writing

US Berder Patrol posted:

lol ok, that's unfortunate and I'm a little sorry for my joke for their sake. That said, plenty of bigots have taken this trans lady's joke and run with it for themselves, like frat boys doing Chapelle skits

facialimpediment posted:

2) Pfizer is developing a third/booster/Delta-specific dose, and it's apparently super-powerful, but the CDC/FDA is currently not convinced we need it yet.

Crab Dad posted:

Where did all the rats go?

PeterCat posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvjOG5gboFU

McNally posted:

Grant's horse was Jeff Davis because it was taken from Jeff Davis' plantation in Mississippi.

Lee's favorite horse was Traveler.

facialimpediment posted:

It'll be fun when space kills its first millionaire because they think it's Wars/Trek instead of The Expanse.

Space wants/tries to kill everyone in it. I'm cool with feeding it billionaires.

Kazinsal posted:

Yeah, The Expanse has magic hyper efficient fusion drives that can burn at 0.3G for months at a time with a remass tank that’s only half the mass of the ship. In reality, the mass flow of the NERVA solid-core nuclear thermal rocket was 8.5 kg/s at full throttle and it never actually flew because people got scared of putting fission cores in space.

boop the snoot posted:

I have a question about the upcoming wars over moon land

Do guns shoot in space?

Sentinel posted:

Huh that's pretty loving neat.
I always assumed lack of O2 would be an issue.
But I guess there must be some air sealed in the cartridge for it to still ignite.

I guess Minmitar Eve ships can exist.

Duzzy Funlop posted:

I think the Netherlands have one of the highest vaccination rates of Europe, so let's go ahead and do away with mask mandates indoors.
You know what, let's do away with all restrictions entirely.

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/at-least-180-infected-after-dutch-disco-despite-showing-covid-19-certificates-1.4611870

Whoopsiedoodles

spankmeister posted:

It wasn't just this particular disco that didn't take it into account, they were following government guidelines. It was straight up government policy to consider people to be "fully" vaccinated immediately after getting your second dose or in the case of J&J the single dose. They did a whole a PR campaign which they called "Dansen met Janssen" (I'm sure you can work the translation). This was specifically aimed at young people to entice them to get the J&J vaccine because it allows you to go out and party immediately. They even had a DJ at the vaccination place.

They have since changed this policy and it's now 2 weeks after, like a sane government would do.

Baconroll posted:

British soldier doing a training jump in California had partial failure of his parachute and ended up in someone's kitchen. Sorry for the Daily Fail link,

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9779477/British-soldier-smashes-ROOF-lands-kitchen-parachute-fails-open-exercise.html

bird food bathtub posted:

wingnut welfare gravy train

Eej posted:

The overuse of the word fascism to define "thing I don't like" nowadays makes me think maybe prescriptivists were right all along

Orwell, 1944 posted:

OF ALL the unanswered questions of our time, perhaps the most important is: ‘What is Fascism?’
One of the social survey organizations in America recently asked this question of a hundred different people, and got answers ranging from ‘pure democracy’ to ‘pure diabolism’. In this country if you ask the average thinking person to define Fascism, he usually answers by pointing to the German and Italian régimes. But this is very unsatisfactory, because even the major Fascist states differ from one another a good deal in structure and ideology.

It is not easy, for instance, to fit Germany and Japan into the same framework, and it is even harder with some of the small states which are describable as Fascist. It is usually assumed, for instance, that Fascism is inherently warlike, that it thrives in an atmosphere of war hysteria and can only solve its economic problems by means of war preparation or foreign conquests. But clearly this is not true of, say, Portugal or the various South American dictatorships. Or again, antisemitism is supposed to be one of the distinguishing marks of Fascism; but some Fascist movements are not antisemitic. Learned controversies, reverberating for years on end in American magazines, have not even been able to determine whether or not Fascism is a form of capitalism. But still, when we apply the term ‘Fascism’ to Germany or Japan or Mussolini’s Italy, we know broadly what we mean. It is in internal politics that this word has lost the last vestige of meaning. For if you examine the press you will find that there is almost no set of people—certainly no political party or organized body of any kind—which has not been denounced as Fascist during the past ten years. Here I am not speaking of the verbal use of the term ‘Fascist’. I am speaking of what I have seen in print. I have seen the words ‘Fascist in sympathy’, or ‘of Fascist tendency’, or just plain ‘Fascist’, applied in all seriousness to the following bodies of people:

Conservatives: All Conservatives, appeasers or anti-appeasers, are held to be subjectively pro-Fascist. British rule in India and the Colonies is held to be indistinguishable from Nazism. Organizations of what one might call a patriotic and traditional type are labelled crypto-Fascist or ‘Fascist-minded’. Examples are the Boy Scouts, the Metropolitan Police, M.I.5, the British Legion. Key phrase: ‘The public schools are breeding-grounds of Fascism’.

Socialists: Defenders of old-style capitalism (example, Sir Ernest Benn) maintain that Socialism and Fascism are the same thing. Some Catholic journalists maintain that Socialists have been the principal collaborators in the Nazi-occupied countries. The same accusation is made from a different angle by the Communist party during its ultra-Left phases. In the period 1930–35 the Daily Worker habitually referred to the Labour Party as the Labour Fascists. This is echoed by other Left extremists such as Anarchists. Some Indian Nationalists consider the British trade unions to be Fascist organizations.

Communists: A considerable school of thought (examples, Rauschning, Peter Drucker, James Burnham, F. A. Voigt) refuses to recognize a difference between the Nazi and Soviet régimes, and holds that all Fascists and Communists are aiming at approximately the same thing and are even to some extent the same people. Leaders in The Times (pre-war) have referred to the U.S.S.R. as a ‘Fascist country’. Again from a different angle this is echoed by Anarchists and Trotskyists.

Trotskyists: Communists charge the Trotskyists proper, i.e. Trotsky’s own organization, with being a crypto-Fascist organization in Nazi pay. This was widely believed on the Left during the Popular Front period. In their ultra-Right phases the Communists tend to apply the same accusation to all factions to the Left of themselves, e.g. Common Wealth or the I.L.P.

Catholics: Outside its own ranks, the Catholic Church is almost universally regarded as pro-Fascist, both objectively and subjectively;

War resisters: Pacifists and others who are anti-war are frequently accused not only of making things easier for the Axis, but of becoming tinged with pro-Fascist feeling.

Supporters of the war: War resisters usually base their case on the claim that British imperialism is worse than Nazism, and tend to apply the term ‘Fascist’ to anyone who wishes for a military victory. The supporters of the People’s Convention came near to claiming that willingness to resist a Nazi invasion was a sign of Fascist sympathies. The Home Guard was denounced as a Fascist organization as soon as it appeared. In addition, the whole of the Left tends to equate militarism with Fascism. Politically conscious private soldiers nearly always refer to their officers as ‘Fascist-minded’ or ‘natural Fascists’. Battle-schools, spit and polish, saluting of officers are all considered conducive to Fascism. Before the war, joining the Territorials was regarded as a sign of Fascist tendencies. Conscription and a professional army are both denounced as Fascist phenomena.

Nationalists: Nationalism is universally regarded as inherently Fascist, but this is held only to apply to such national movements as the speaker happens to disapprove of. Arab nationalism, Polish nationalism, Finnish nationalism, the Indian Congress Party, the Muslim League, Zionism, and the I.R.A. are all described as Fascist but not by the same people.

It will be seen that, as used, the word ‘Fascism’ is almost entirely meaningless. In conversation, of course, it is used even more wildly than in print. I have heard it applied to farmers, shopkeepers, Social Credit, corporal punishment, fox-hunting, bull-fighting, the 1922 Committee, the 1941 Committee, Kipling, Gandhi, Chiang Kai-Shek, homosexuality, Priestley’s broadcasts, Youth Hostels, astrology, women, dogs and I do not know what else.

Yet underneath all this mess there does lie a kind of buried meaning. To begin with, it is clear that there are very great differences, some of them easy to point out and not easy to explain away, between the régimes called Fascist and those called democratic. Secondly, if ‘Fascist’ means ‘in sympathy with Hitler’, some of the accusations I have listed above are obviously very much more justified than others. Thirdly, even the people who recklessly fling the word ‘Fascist’ in every direction attach at any rate an emotional significance to it. By ‘Fascism’ they mean, roughly speaking, something cruel, unscrupulous, arrogant, obscurantist, anti-liberal and anti-working-class. Except for the relatively small number of Fascist sympathizers, almost any English person would accept ‘bully’ as a synonym for ‘Fascist’. That is about as near to a definition as this much-abused word has come.

But Fascism is also a political and economic system. Why, then, cannot we have a clear and generally accepted definition of it? Alas! we shall not get one—not yet, anyway. To say why would take too long, but basically it is because it is impossible to define Fascism satisfactorily without making admissions which neither the Fascists themselves, nor the Conservatives, nor Socialists of any colour, are willing to make. All one can do for the moment is to use the word with a certain amount of circumspection and not, as is usually done, degrade it to the level of a swearword.

KirbyKhan posted:

UP THE BUM NO BABY posted:

https://twitter.com/BBCWorld/status/1415331561524826125?s=19

facialimpediment posted:

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

My Spirit Otter posted:

not sure this is something you want to admit to in public