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Succinct and clear overview of Texas' election lawsuit: https://thefederalist.com/2020/12/09/6-things-to-know-about-texass-supreme-court-petition-over-2020s-messed-up-election/ And crickets from the mainstream media, including the fact 18 states have now joined in a brief to the Supreme Court suppo...

This would help explain why there are so many positive cases with so few deaths. 251,547 deaths so far. 9/11 caused 2,977 deaths. That's 84 and three quarter 9/11s. I'd see that as a problem, but maybe I should stand back and admire your manly fortitude (while I wait for the inevitable and unlikely...

OMG! Listening to this is wildly entertaining. Sam Harris and Andrew Sullivan blathering like old women about their hatred for the Donald. Haha. https://samharris.org/podcasts/223-october-30-2020/ And in his latest mini-podcast he describes an 'epiphany' he had, presumably subsequent to the Sulliva...

At some point people might realise that all these conveniently found laptops owned by Hunter Biden are about as likely as the idea that doctors inflate Covid-19 deaths because they get paid $2000 extra if a patient dies of Covid-19 rather than any other disease. And that's complete and utter nonsen...

A metaphor I hope. The American immune system may be girding up to repel socialism and identity politics. Or maybe not. We'll find out Tuesday. Come on, Man! Malarkey. You mean socialism, like that evil democratic socialism of Scandinavia. God save us from that. No, I mean socialism as in the thinl...

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A metaphor I hope. The American immune system may be girding up to repel socialism and identity politics. Or maybe not. We'll find out Tuesday.

I am not one to easy believe in conspiracies. I believe that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. I do not believe the government is hiding evidence of space aliens. There is no bigfoot... etc..... but... in some real sense the "Deep State" does exist.... a kind of political protection racket between pol...

High credit for truth in presentation! But for full credit they need to go full baboon: [.img]https://cs1.livemaster.ru/storage/34/24/d11456534580bcbeac945a8097qb--clothing-baboon-scenic-suit-cosplay-carnival-costume.jpg[/.img] Mandrill, not baboon. Baboons are bland: baboon.jpg and mandrills are P...

Tammy Baldwin and Tammy Duckworth are particularly insane. I haven't been to Madison Wisconsin in years. These kooks tell me-- it has only gotten more batty. I lived in Madison for 3 years in the '90s. Hard to believe, but during that time, the district had a Republican representative (mostly due t...

for posterity... https://twitter.com/TPostMillennial/status/1321532527958466560 :occasion-clown: High credit for truth in presentation! But for full credit they need to go full baboon: https://cs1.livemaster.ru/storage/34/24/d11456534580bcbeac945a8097qb--clothing-baboon-scenic-suit-cosplay-carnival...

But the deaths per capita in Sweden are 10x Norway and Denmark. I also saw that the economic hit in Denmark was in the same ballpark as Sweden. So Sweden had similar economic hit for 10x the death rate. The Swedish approach by design was going to have more cases and unavoidably more deaths to get t...

The CDC as well? https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2020/10/06/00/34019242-8808035-image-a-1_1601941107031.jpg Back in the realm of actual science, here's a recent study involving 23 Greek family clusters where Covid-19 had infiltrated and there wasn't a single example of child-to-child or child-to-adult...

I've been keeping this handy for a laugh induced endorphin boost as needed.

I didn't realized Spitting Image had a revival. Here they are on Jacinda Ardern.

House Republicans have really been raising their ad game this year:

This somehow escaped the Pit's notice yesterday. Nadler became a literal shitsack as well as a figuative one.

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That must be Canadian for "Bless your heart".

Canadian version of "As American as Apple Pie": As Canadian as possible under the circumstances.

Most boring headline conceivable: Sensible Canadian initiative debated.

Then I read more about the 'Biden rule'-- until today, I thought it was based on something Biden said during the 2016 Garland mess. But, no, it was based on something Biden said back in 1992. I am warm to-- using something that fuckwit Biden blathered back in 1992-- against him in 2016. So the 2016...

It used to be you had to use Photoshop to get an image like this.

Trump administration prohibits training programs that include Critical Race Theory: https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/09/04/partys-over-trump-orders-purge-of-critical-race-theory-from-federal-agencies/ Not sure it can be done by executive order or "Dear Colleague" bullshit, but it would be even m...

Justice served quickly, although I expect the escalation between Antifa and Patriot Prayer/Proud Boys in Portland will yield more gun violence this month.

https://nypost.com/2020/09/04/suspected ... al-agents/

https://www.bullshido.net/anatomy-of-a-catastrophe/ A fair assessment. Everyone made poor choices. Bullshido gets the facts wrong. Does that alter your view of the assessment? -It's not illegal in Wisconsin for a 17 year old to carry a long gun in those circumstances. -The pejoratives 'LARPer', 'ob...

Wow.... Tim Pool rant. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miR0Zk8iFYA I'm glad the casualties all seem to be BLM rioters; the world is a slightly better place. But if this marks an escalation where lethally armed, poorly trained militia steps in where regular law enforcement stands down, while some ju...

What in the actual fuck? ... Is that even English? Sorry, "American-English" as our septic tank cousins call it. Has she suffered major brain damage or something? Also, and this is what truly confuses me, why would anyone look up to or seek advice from an individual like this? Fucking America. Rout...

Would pay to see the result if this was attempted in Fort Collins, CO or just about any town in Texas (Austin excluded).

Maclean's, basically Canada's version of Time Magazine, has a devastating hit piece on Kamala Harris from the left, basically expanding on Tulsi Gabbard. Kamala Harris is no friend of the community And, in a neither here nor there, here's an article from Maclean's from back in February, which found ...

You ask my motivation for posting the link. Let's see. I thought that it was an interesting piece of analysis, albeit overlong and a bit windy. I thought that it would be provocative (and it certainly worked on you). Well, not really, I just mockingly dismissed it and saw no need to engage with it ...

Wisconsin govt agency mandates mandatory facemasks for Zoom teleconference calls from home. https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2020/08/10/dnr-tells-staff-wear-masks-zoom-calls-even-when-they-home/3335232001/ If anyone needed proof that a major motivation for mask mandates is the desire to...

The Libertarian this year is even more whack-o than your usual libertarian: she echoes the 'systemic racism' claims, only her solution is to eliminate the system. I don't know if Jo Jorgenson is a true woke believer, or the party believes it can best expand among the woke, but that's the direction ...

You might call it tendentious twaddle written by an academic parasite, but that doesn't take anything away from the decline of American ( sensu stricto USA) hegemony playing out across the world stage. The Roman Empire lasted from 8 BC - 5 AD and the Brits at least managed from 1600s to 1960ish. Ho...

Add Poland to the list of countries showing COVID-19 caused excess mortality is related to the severity of the past 2-3 flu seasons, and thus the relative proportion of near end-of-life people in the population who normally would have died of the flu in the previous few years. In Poland's case, they...

Service Dog wrote: ↑ top of the page nightmare fuel

Tulsi Gabbard still provides the gold standard in exorcisms of this particular demon.

Behold. The American dream . It's hard for me to conceive of a more stark "this way lies bullshit" warning than the author being "Leadership Chair in Cultures and Ecosystems at Risk at the University of British Columbia". ... Hmmmm. I seem to recall someone being upset that people could discount an...

Kids aren't a much risk of dying, but they can easily be carriers. And the people that take care of them tend to be older. Sometimes a lot older. The standard narrative smugly held right now by people who think they're being science-y is that it recently came to light that asymptomatic carriers can...

Behold. The American dream . It's hard for me to conceive of a more stark "this way lies bullshit" warning than the author being "Leadership Chair in Cultures and Ecosystems at Risk at the University of British Columbia". However, I'll give him some credit for amusingly looking like a younger versi...

George Floyd raw bodycam footage released. 1hr 5min clip. https://youtu.be/NjKjaCvXdf4 None of this should be a surprise to anyone. It was obvious that there was a lot of crazy shit going on. My prediction from trial..... Floyd died from drugs, but the cops should have helped him more than they did...

People are idiots, and that includes many who have been appointed to advise us. But the coronavirus still kills and sickens, and we must do our best to navigate through it all. We can't just rely on our own opinions for matters like whether masks work or not. I think we see science playing out on a...

Just like those evolutionists keep changing their story. It's almost like it takes time to understand a new virus -- how it transmits, what damage it dos etc. This is science in action. As new data comes in our understanding changes. If you want eternal truths look to religion. So, let's see... Whe...

Skeptics ought to be enthusiastically embracing critical theory, and even post-modernism, because it does all the stuff skeptics claim to appreciate. Read that last paragraph again. Only a Status Quo Warrior would think that is undesirable. But instead they’ve only embraced the fringe abuses of the...

The incident took place in Louisville... which is where BLM issued a list of mafia-demands to local (cuban immigrant) businesses, saying "better put the letter on the door so your business is not f*cked with." https://www.lawenforcementtoday.com/blm-demands-piece-of-louisville-business-owners-profi...

I seem to remember someone saying it was a certainty that covid escaped from the Wuhan lab. When I politely raised the possibility that it may have originated in the countryside from natural means, which by the way is now the consensus of the virologists that actually have been researching corona v...

*bang* Fascinating seeing an explosion where the shock wave is so visually apparent, I assume because the site of the explosion was close to water and water vapour was carried by the wave. In this video, from farther away, it looks like a small nuclear bomb. https://twitter.com/i/status/12906692401...

A couple days ago, I listened to Episode #35 of Bret Weinstein's Dark Horse Podcast. ... Bret & wifey are on the alarmist side of Covid-- he advocates a 6 week don't-leave-your-homes total lockdown, and believes the disease does lifelong harm to young people's lungs & health. So I was unsurprised w...

This is the 2nd time you've haplessly tried to draw parallels-- between some topic & pissing-on-my-doorstep. To make me seem like hypocrite-- if I don't agree with your rhetorical gimmick. Except your parallels aren't parallel. Analogies have never been FTP's forte. They serve mainly to demonstrate...

I seem to remember someone saying it was a certainty that covid escaped from the Wuhan lab. When I politely raised the possibility that it may have originated in the countryside from natural means, which by the way is now the consensus of the virologists that actually have been researching corona v...

You just belong to a different tribe. My tribe likes to see rigorous studies that use the scientific method to determine fact. Unless the facts so determined conflict with the dogmatic tribal politics, such as in GMO safety studies, the genetic factors related to intelligence, anything contradictin...

jugheadnaut wrte: So what's the argument behind the interpretation that Section 230 entails internet content providers not have tight editorial and moderation policies in return for the broad immunity from liability they are given? 230(c)(1) states: No provider or user of an interactive computer se...

Here's some interesting section 230 stuff. They apparently can't be sued for the sale of counterfeit goods: https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/absentee-ownership-how-amazon-facebook Why does Facebook enable such scams? It’s simple. The law lets Facebook make a lot of money enabling counterfeiting. ...

jugheadnaut wrote: They are not allowed to have editorial policies that would be conventional for a standard publisher, nor decide what opinions are harmful, or even false. Obviously, the major social platforms been ignoring this for the last several years, and they're likely going to lose their br...

I think Section 230 sez private businesses do not have a responsibility to police the content of claims made on their platforms. If so, then you're spreading clearly wrong and harmful/ dangerous nonsense. I'm pretty sure Section 230 doesn't obligate private platforms to allow any and all false and ...

Theoretically, if he put out an apology where he showed a true understanding of his failures, pointing out his Manichaeism, tribalism, and hypocrisy, and that his fans tended to be terrible people who reinforced and rewarded his worst characteristics and instincts, and then said he'd try to make up...

Why is Lemmy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s05jcrJw0as It's always weird listening to a musical track that you know for a fact you haven't heard in over 30 years, and little snippets of memory start to come back at you as you remember listening to it in your youth. Second time this happened to me...

At the risk of committing a Pit heresy, I'll say something semi-nice about Peezer. He was a guest on the excellent YouTube channel Paulogia that he mentions, and at least in this video seems to have learned from it that a calmer, more surgical approach is more effective than his usual impotent ravi...

People can take a few hits in the torso and not go down immediately. If she just hit lung or gut tissue it would kill him eventually, but is not enough instant damage to stop him. This is why some people say the cops need to go back to 45s. They have more stopping power. Glad to see Michigan is in ...

I know that JBP went a bit off the rails, but that is loopy to the tonsils... He dyed his beard purple, but now it seems to be getting blacker. That, his sanpaku, and pudgy face are beginning to make him look truly bizarre. At the risk of committing a Pit heresy, I'll say something semi-nice about ...

Can't believe I missed this from last October. Deserves a lot more views

I'm going to assume it was based on witness testimony from the store. Until proven otherwise, I'm good with the presumption they were telling the truth. 911 call says he already drove away-- but caller told 911 she still felt threatened. Sheriff's statement said Ruiz was denied service-- and was le...

He earlier stabbed an elderly man over a mask dispute in a convenience store. Police released the bodycam video & the 911 call-- but not the security video (and audio) from the store. Why not? Until that's released-- who really knows what happened? Maybe he couldn't pay rent and was shoplifting bre...

I signed on to my position at AFL not just because it's just an atheist group, but also because they're anti-woke. Indeed, I stepped back from involvement with 'the atheist movement' around 2014 to focus on other things because groups and personalities largely went SJW. With AFL, I see something re...

She's got to be hitting him, but he's surely hopped up. Of course, Joe Biden thinks she should have aimed for his leg. Looked to me like she got him in the arm, which is what made him stop and in the shoulder once or twice. But, yeah, you'd think from that distance at least one was in the torso. Lu...

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