Punished Turtle posted:

starting over for new thread:

01. Alexander Hamilton

How does a bastard, orphan, son of a whore and a Scotsman, dropped in the middle of a forgotten
spot in the Caribbean by Providence impoverished in squalor
grow up to be a hero and a scholar?

The Ten dollar, founding father without a father
got a lot farther by working a lot harder
by being a lot smarter by being a self-starter
by fourteen, they placed him in charge of a trading charter

luv2shit posted:

Nichael posted:

World War Mammories posted:

this was all in a goldmined thread, here's where he tried it
https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=4021673&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=8#post529063985

then on the next page willa figures out that leon edited her name out of his posts and the thread rockets into the stratosphere

Willa Rogers posted:

that stupid p.o.s. chait nymag piece proves me correct on everything I've ever said about secret government control of social media bc he's making the case that petitioning the government for redress is not only breaching but comes close to what he defines as domestic terrorism.

that has nothing to do with trump or musk & you've got to be a loving idiot to not see the signs around you that the government is making a case to control online speech, and that leftists are as much of a target for it as the right.

Willa Rogers posted:

but it goes beyond the internet bc chait is talking about the NERVE of protestors to interrupt high-dollar fundraisers & the important business of legislating & then he attempts to link the anti-zionist actions with Jan. 6 protestors--er "insurrectionists"--which as I've pointed out was a fortuitous op to criminalize & punish all protests & brand them as "domestic terrorism."

Willa Rogers posted:

literally the only two times in recent history goons have said I'm too old to be spending my time owning goons are lyin' leon & mcmagic, who happen to be the two goons I've most often owned.

Gumball Gumption posted:

No one actually likes the new Beyonce album. The good reviews are out of touch liberals and the hoi polloi are mostly clowning on that Jolene cover.

The good doctor just won my vote

fits my needs posted:

https://x.com/POTUS/status/1778149703147766187

Clip-On Fedora posted:

There is no point and there's nothing to understand, it's just stupid drivel.

mcmagic posted:

Gore would have 100% invaded Afghanistan. I don't think he would've invaded Iraq just because he wouldn't have had the project for a new american century neo cons in his administration who had a hardon for Saddam for the previous decade.

VitalSigns posted:

I remember the argument also went something like: there's no naturally-occurring blue color in the world, so ancient people were never exposed to blue and thus never developed language for it or even the ability for their brains to process it. Like the experiments where you blindfold a baby monkey or whatever and then it's never able to see properly because it had no visual stimulus when its brain was developing. So humans only gained the ability so see blue once blue pigment was invented and we started painting things blue and so on.

But...like...there is blue in nature. Bluebonnets, bluejays, blueberries, turquoise, sapphires, lapis lazuli, the sky?

If people didn't see blue, why were blue pigments from Afghanistan so prized in the ancient world, wouldn't they just look like any cheaper wine-dark pigment you could get at home? How did rare expensive blue pigments even get invented in the first place if no one needed them or could distinguish them from wine? Why do we find evidence of blue paint on ancient Greek buildings like the Parthenon (OK it was 5th century BC and Homer was 8th century, so were those 300 years the critical ones when people started seeing blue?) But even then you can find blue tiles from the 30th century BC in Egypt soooo

Willa Rogers posted:

theCalamity posted:

https://twitter.com/axios/status/1779149560801059008

Nanomashoes posted:

Imagine if Kamala inherits ww3 from Biden.

mcmagic posted:

https://twitter.com/GovMurphy/status/1779265762605052054

what is this fucker gonna do? lol

Willa Rogers posted:

americans think back to 2020, year of the pandemic, and say to themselves, those were our *good* times...

Nichael posted:

even if we elect "the right" (blue team) people:

comedyblissoption posted:

5 wars?
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1779505004774134073

https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1779538707919388844

https://twitter.com/mazemoore/status/1779236045382447555

WampaLord posted:

https://twitter.com/demorants/status/1779715388298650046?t=RV5hIRsNhS6O6sCThdJKoA&s=19

LOL so many Americans are brain poisoned in this incredibly specific way where they think every vote is the one that decides the election.

Can't even vote third party in NY, what if that's the vote that elects Trump?!?!?!!?!?!

Automata 10 Pack posted:

https://x.com/shark3ozero/status/1779928257237746147?s=46

fits my needs posted:

https://x.com/TheDemocrats/status/1780269936163565869

Joementum posted:

i promise you that i'm not posting this in the wrong thread

https://twitter.com/people/status/1777820792505458738

Grapplejack posted:

Michael Scott gets called racist and writes in Obama to prove he isn't; this causes joe to lose pa by one vote

mcmagic posted:

I don't remember if I cared all that much about if the 2020 debates happened but I know they were completely useless wastes of time for everyone involved. You think i give a poo poo enough about winning some dumb tit for tat flamewar with you to spend time going through 4 year old posts? lol

You have a rooting interest in the debate (for Trump) so you want to see your favorite guy own Biden.

We already know neither of them are up to the job.

Uncle Wemus posted:

The comedian insisted the disgraced director is innocent and those refusing to work with him are “a bunch of pussies.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/bill-maher-to-katie-couric-woody-allen-not-a-pervert-for-baby-doll-kink

HallelujahLee posted:

baquack obamailure

RadiRoot posted:

biden going to do something very stupid soon

Danann posted:

https://twitter.com/jewstein3000/status/1780590066978468134

I think about “Havana Syndrome” a lot and maybe that’s because of my experiences. I was immediately made sick from the air around Ground Zero and told it was safe and to return to work. I never recovered. 1/

Since then I have had such severe chemical sensitivity that I’ve had to move constantly and I’ve been gaslit every single time I’ve pointed out gas leaks, mold, pesticide (and where I could, I’ve always been proven right). 2/

I was exposed to the Dominguez Channel chemical spill in 2021 and knew right away the government was lying about it being caused by natural phenomena (and was proven right). 3/

I’ve been exposed to people feeling the need to downplay environmental exposures my whole life, even before 9/11, as a sensitive person.

With Havana Syndrome, we had people reporting similar symptoms in one building then other buildings. They had in common their employment. 4/

The CIA minimized and denied their claims. That was expected. They did the same with Agent Orange.

Yet for some reason, there is a large group of people overly focused on denying these patients who seem to think it’s a CIA-backed story. 5/

And there are people obsessed with denying the claims of people who experienced so-called “Havana Syndrome,” even though it’s a small group of people, not supported by the govt, not really affecting anyone’s lives, 6/

The point I should have led with is this: The people obsessed with denying Havana Syndrome will hide behind politics, claiming that it’s racist, that it’s a CIA story, etc.

But ultimately I think it’s just about the pleasure people get from disease denial 7/

There are whole Reddit communities around calling people fakers who say they are sick.

Tweets that claim disabled people are lying or exaggerating are almost always popular. It’s sport!! 8/

I think it comes from the internalized ableism that is at the heart of all ableism: denying disease or illness or physical weakness or sensitivities etc is a way to convince yourself that you have control over your body.

Control you don’t have! Sorry. 9/

It’s connected to the Door Dash discourse: leftists claimed they cared so much about workers they had to deny the experience of disabled people who said they needed their food delivered.

But that was a cover.

These same labor activists had nothing to say about consuming produce from exploited farm workers, admitted to eating in restaurants where workers disproportionately died of Covid, etc.

The discourse became almost entirely about how the disabled people had to be lying.

And not surprisingly some of the Doordash folks also think it’s fun to mock Havana Syndrome.

This is why political allegiance is meaningless to most marginalized groups. We see how you use the rhetoric of politics to play your favorite game: punching down.

I also think it’s fallen out of favor on the left to deny Long Covid (though people like Natalie Shure still do) because it’s so widespread and there’s no political cover for it. They can’t claim it’s a fiction by the govt.

So that’s where Havana Syndrome stepped in.

But it’s still popular on the left to deny chronic Lyme, despite major institutions like Johns Hopkins establishing centers to investigate and treat it. And other rare illnesses.

At best, the deniers will hide behind “Big Pharma” to create a political cover story for ableism.

FYI dunno for sure the cause of “Havana Syndrome,” but the US has been developing microwave radiation technology since at least the Cold War and there were examples of known tests of it in the year before Havana Syndrome was named.

comedyblissoption posted:

https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1781320162169491790

Second Hand Meat Mouth posted:

lol that the only juror to get their news from msnbc also gets their news from fox

https://twitter.com/jmhorp/status/1781489549354356849

Beached Whale posted:

yeah this trial is already over

Yinlock posted:

because biden is just an empty suit they project all their hopes and dreams onto, it doesn't matter what he actually says

also if biden's too old that means i'm wrong, thought discarded

Trabisnikof posted:

everyone is doing poop stories. trump pooped in court and biden pooped in the vatican.

Joementum posted:

how does the DCCC still manage to convince two or three of these type of guys to lose every two years?

https://x.com/ike4co/status/1771212681334145467?s=46

Joementum posted:

btw, i called that guy an animated recruitment poster.... and then i visited his website

Joementum posted:

https://twitter.com/haaretzcom/status/1071940840296198144

bedpan posted: